Lisa Matthes
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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 number and email address in the box to the right.
Jul. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
A group of over 30 California-based organizations yesterday sent a letter to Governor Brown urging him to reject the use of international forest carbon offsets credits in the state’s cap and trade system.
Read More »Jul. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new report, China Development Bank’s overseas investments: An assessment of environmental and social policies and practices, released today by Friends of the Earth U.S. and BankTrack, concludes that the China Development B...
Read More »Jun. 26, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the Army Corps of Engineers began granting TransCanada fast-tracked approval to start building the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline this week, people across the region and around the count...
Read More »Jun. 26, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Congress could move a long way toward solving the nation’s twin problems of spiraling budget costs and environmental degradation simply by cutting hundreds of billions in environmentally harmful federal subsidies, according to a groundbreaki...
Read More »Jun. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases, Oceans and Forests
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The EPA announced that it would not take action to control global warming pollution from major mobile sources at this time. The agency’s decision not to regulate ships and other non-road engines, and its indefinite d...
Read More »Jun. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
San Francisco, Calif. -- California Governor Jerry Brown announced in a statement today that he has directed state agencies to revise the decades-old flammability standards and to recommend changes to reduce the use of toxic fire retardants. The C...
Read More »Jun. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth today filed a legal petition to require the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep the crippled reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shut down until and unless their operator, Sout...
Read More »Jun. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Economics for the Earth, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Friday, June 1, a World Bank tribunal allowed an international legal attack on El Salvador’s environment and democracy to advance, accepting jurisdiction to rule on a lawsuit brought by multinational mining firm Pac Ri...
Read More »Jun. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Washington, D.C. – Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year ago on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friend...
Read More »May. 25, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington D.C. -- The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank, a federal government trade promotion agency, voted to provide $90 million in financing to the top U.S. coal exporter, Xcoal Energy & Resources, to export coal to China and other ...
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