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Trading in fake carbon credits: Problems with the Clean Development Mechanism
What is the CDM? Read More
Supreme Court sides with Friends of the Earth
Denies Petition Seeking Weaker Pollution Limits on River Pollution Read More
Ship Shape: Treating Toxic Waste as Waste
In September, the Port of Seattle adopted Friends of the Earth's proposal to dispose of 20,000 cubic yards of PCB-tainted sediment dredged from Puget Sound into a waste management facility (the alternative was to dump it back into the Sound). Read More
Victory at the IMO! … and Next Steps
Friends of the Earth strongly welcomed the IMO’s formal adoption of revisions to MARPOL Annex VI last Thursday, which will bring about a substantial reduction in air pollution from ships. Currently, the average sulfur content of ship fuel is 2.4 percent, with a maximum allowable limit of 4.5 percent. Under the revisions approved last week, ocean-going ships will be required to use marine distillate fuel with no more than 0.5 percent sulfur content (5,000 parts per million) starting in 2020 or 2025 – depending on the results of a fuel availability study. This fu Read More
Ship Shape: The IMO and Emission Control Areas
Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Earth International have been working tirelessly with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to revise an international agreement that would strengthen ship emissions standards and allow countries to apply for Emission Control Area (ECA) expansions along their coastlines. This work is about to pay off! Read More
IMO gets it right …. finally
Members of the Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Earth International delegations let out a collective sigh of relief this afternoon when the IMO approved a major amendment to MARPOL Annex VI, an international agreement governing air pollution from ships. On a day that was filled with plenary sessions, working groups, and presentations, the IMO finally took a step towards cleaning up the historically un Read More
London Calling
Clean Vessels Program Manager, John Kaltenstein went to London, England to attend the 58th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Click here to read about Friends of the Earth and our history with the IMO. Click here to listen to a BBC radio segment entitled, "Shipping industry CO2 emissions far higher than planes" with Eelco Leemans, the Read More
Ship Shape: Stopping Whale Strikes
Question: How can you reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save whales at the same time? Answer: By reducing ship speed! Read More
Congress on Energy: “Drill, baby…shill!”
Congress is failing to serve the public when it comes to our energy crisis and global warming. A compromised energy bill just passed the House and now the Senate is considering similar legislation THIS WEEK. House Democrats pushed weak legislation days ago that capitulated to Republican demands for more offshore drilling and many Republicans complained about all the good things in the bill that had nothing to do with drilling. Now the Senate is taking up the issue, and they need to hear from you to tell them not to fund more dirty oil and coal. Read More