Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications / Tags: Michal rosenoer
On Wednesday a freight train carrying ethanol derailed in Columbus, Ohio, putting hundreds of residents within range of blazing fires and facing the risk of water contamination. In response, the National Transportation and Safety Board evacuated o...
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Michelle chan, Redd
This week, Friends of Earth, along with 30 other organizations based in California, urged Governor Brown to prevent international REDD carbon credits (carbon credits generated from efforts to prevent deforestation and forest degradation in tropica...
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Kendra Ulrich / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications, San Onofre Updates / Tags: Kendra ulrich, San onofre, Steam generators
Leaked Edison document exposes San Onofre as worst in the nation The crippled steam generators in the San Onofre nuclear reactors have earned the Southern California Edison run plant the dubious distinction as having the most severely defective an...
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Jul. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman
Activist opposition to the proposed plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is starting to heat up -- and the media is increasingly taking notice. Last month, I sent an email encouraging Friends of the Earth activist...
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Jul. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren
“The trade ministers get together to set the rules of trade. They don't worry about the environment; that's somebody else's agenda. Trade above all -- that's the way they approach it. And as a result of that, we get a trade agenda that puts ...
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Jul. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications / Tags: Michal rosenoer
Tomorrow morning the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold what will likely be the only Congressional hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard this year. The hearing, titled “The American Energy Initiative: A Focus on Alternative Fuels...
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Jul. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors
On Friday evening, my husband Patrick and I were putting our daughter to bed and preparing an emergency kit at the same time. Due to the heat wave that had struck the lower southeast, we had already sweltered through a day where the heat index pus...
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Jul. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology / Tags: Michal rosenoer
This past week the Obama Administration announced $62 million in new funding for the advanced biofuels industry. The White House's goal is to jump-starting the commercial-scale development of drop-in biofuels – biofuels that do not require s...
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Jul. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Michelle chan
Over the past several years, Chinese overseas investments have had a powerful global impact, from the Gibe 3 dam in Ethiopia, to the Alberta tar sands in Canada, to the Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar. In the past, many of these environmentall...
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Jun. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Bill waren
Who will join the fight to save the dolphins? Consumer boycotts and “save the dolphin” demonstrations over the course of many years resulted in a U.S. program for dolphin safe labeling for tuna products. Most Mexican commercial fishing...
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