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Our news releases are where you can find some of the latest news and breaking updates from our campaigns for climate and energy solutions, safe food and technology, healthy oceans and ecosystems and economic policies that put people before polluters, as well as statements on behalf of our organization made by our president, Erich Pica.
Journalists who wish to arrange an interview or to acquire more information are encouraged to contact our media team at the phone numbers and email addresses in the box to the right.
Feb. 17, 2012 / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Friends of the Earth today released Crude beginnings, a new investor brief on the environmental and social risks associated with China National Petroleum Corporation, one of the world’s biggest oil companies. CNPC, China’s leading oil...
Read More »Feb. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Kurt walters / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Dissenting NRC chairman says approval amounts to acting ‘as if Fukushima never happened’ Washington, D.C. — Despite the opposition of its chair, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last Thursday approved the first new construction...
Read More »Feb. 9, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Department’s Office of Inspector General recommends reforms after finding procedural lapses and previously undisclosed financial relationship between TransCanada and Cardno Entrix, as well as insufficient scientific expertise within departme...
Read More »Feb. 9, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
5 p.m. update, Thursday, February 10, 2012: Friends of the Earth received an email from the State Department this afternoon indicating that our FOIA request for the contract with Cardno Entrix has been reopened and that the department is reviewing...
Read More »Feb. 1, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
San Francisco — Friends of the Earth called the radioactive release of steam today from the San Onofre nuclear plant near San Diego a sharp reminder that a Fukushima could happen here. The organization has called on California Governor Jerr...
Read More »Jan. 27, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Florida utility seeks to cancel nuclear construction plans while leaving customers on the hook for hundreds of millions as Iowa legislators consider allowing a similar swindle IOWA -- News that Florida utility Progress Energy plans to cancel the c...
Read More »Jan. 26, 2012 / Categories: Legal, News Releases, Oceans and Forests
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — A coalition of conservation and American Indian groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare train...
Read More »Jan. 23, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Friends of the Earth Calls on Senate to heed the warning and reject misguided legislation A newly released memo from the staff of the Iowa Utilities Board has provided a stinging economic critique of legislation passed by the Iowa House in 2011 wh...
Read More »Jan. 19, 2012 / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
ANAHEIM, January 19—As tens of thousands of people gather for the opening of the NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchants’ biggest annual event, musicians and environmental groups called on the industry to change the tune...
Read More »Jan. 18, 2012 / Categories: Advocacy, Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Obama administration rejected the permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline sought by Canadian oil firm TransCanada, determining that the project was not in the national interest.
Read More »Tell the FDA to label genetically engineered foods. We have a right to know!
