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.
Aug. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the first estimates to take into account the extreme heat and droughts that have ravaged the country this summer, the Department of Agriculture predicted this morning that U.S. corn production will fall to 10.8 billion ...
Read More »Aug. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. – On Tuesday the Laguna Beach City Council unanimously approved a resolution urging a state investigation that could block Southern California Edison from passing on to consumers the costs of repairing the crippled San O...
Read More »Aug. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
As the drought gripping the Midwest wreaks havoc on corn crops, resulting in dramatic drops in projected corn yields, federal policies that force large amounts of corn out of the food supply and into ethanol production are coming under increasing ...
Read More »Aug. 1, 2012 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An Emission Control Area to reduce air pollution from ships in the waters around North America goes into effect today, two years after the International Maritime Organization approved an application from the U.S. and Canada to ...
Read More »Jul. 31, 2012 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
OMAHA, Neb.- In a victory for the climate, public health and endangered species, the Fish and Wildlife Service has taken action that could interfere with Canadian oil corporation TransCanada’s plan for fast-tracked approval of its Keystone X...
Read More »Jul. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Climate and Energy, News Releases
Canadian oil corporation TransCanada today announced that it has received the last of the three permits it needs from the Army Corps of Engineers to break ground on the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline through Oklahoma and Texas. Despite widespr...
Read More »Jul. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth today filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all communications between the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Southern California Edison about the faulty replacement steam generators at the crippled San Onofre nuclear ...
Read More »Jul. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Friends of the Earth groups in Australia and the U.S. revealed that a product used in major sunscreen brands was falsely marketed to the companies and subsequently to their customers as a “non-nano” ingredient...
Read More »Jul. 19, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Questions remain on Edison’s compliance with NRC Rules WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s report on the crippled San Onofre nuclear plant confirms that both of the plant’s reactors have suffered serious and w...
Read More »Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, Publications, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The problems with the steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear reactors are the most severe found in comparable generators across the U.S. nuclear industry, according to a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth.
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