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Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline and Tar Sands Oil Getting Under Big Oil’s Skin
The campaign to stop the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline has been growing as communities that would be impacted by the pipeline team up with groups like Friends of the Earth, grassroots activists across the country, and decisionmakers in Washington, D.C. to halt this environmental disaster in the making. Read More
Civil Society Groups Deliver Letter to UN Climate Finance Body
With the UN's high-level group on climate finance (AGF) set to finalize its report on mechanisms for delivering climate funds to developing countries at a meeting in Addis Ababa that begins October 10, a coalition of civil society groups delivered a letter to AGF members calling for a report that is consistent with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, that directs public funds to climate solutions, and that contains fair and effective mechanisms -- not carbon markets or the World Bank. The letter follows: October 8, 2010 Read More
Liquid Coal: An impending environmental disaster
The United States government has continually supported false solutions for our nation’s energy needs, including new nuclear reactors and “clean coal,” mostly in the guise of transitioning away from our dependence on foreign oil. Instead, what we desperately need is a transition to a clean energy economy. Now, the… Read More
UN Negotiations Underway in Tianjin, China
Climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are taking place October 4-9, 2010, in Tianjin, China. Friends of the Earth U.S.’s Karen Orenstein and Nick Berning are participating in this week’s negotiations as part of the Friends of the Earth International delegation. (For more information about climate… Read More
Support California’s Ship Sewage Dumping Ban
In 2005, Friends of the Earth helped pass the California Clean Coast Act. This act stems the tide of ship pollution by prohibiting the discharge of numerous waste streams from large ships in California’s waters. Sewage and other harmful pollution have posed a major threat to California’s coastline. Read More
Appalachia is Rising to Abolish Mountaintop Removal Mining
Update — January 13, 2011 — In a historic decision, the EPA has vetoed the permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in West Virginia. This mountaintop removal project was one of the largest ever proposed… Read More
Dead in the water
Friends of the Earth has been working hard to prevent the approval by the FDA of AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon. If approved, it would be the first genetically engineered animal to be approved for human consumption. More than 7800 Friends of the Earth activists have sent comments to the… Read More
Call on Your Senator to Save the Clean Air Act
The U.S. Senate's Committee on Appropriations is expected to consider rolling back the Clean Air Act on Thursday, September 16, and the vote could be extremely close. The Clean Air Act is the most powerful existing federal tool to limit global warming pollution, and winning the fight against potential Clean Air Act rollbacks is the most important legislative task we can achieve on behalf of the climate for the remainder of this year. Read More