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Pro-poor Climate Finance: Is There a Role for Private Finance in the Green Climate Fund?
New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting o…
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The Medicine Bow coal to gasoline plant comes at too great a risk, too high a cost
Since the project’s inception in 2006, Friends of the Earth has advocated against the use of public funds for the proposed coal to gasoline plant in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Despite claims from DKRW…
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San Onofre: Friends of the Earth: Edison’s license request a risky red herring that NRC must reject
WASHINGTON – Southern California Edison’s request for a license amendment for one of its crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors treats major safety issues as a minor footnote and seeks to strip…
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San Onofre: Edison expects to shut down and restart reactor repeatedly over next two years
‘Disgraceful’ scheme for risky nuclear experiment could begin June 1 WASHINGTON – In an extraordinary admission, Southern California Edison said today that as part of the experimental plan to re…
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Civil society and entrepreneurs call on World Bank to clean up energy lending
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over 55 development, faith, human rights, community, and environmental groups from more than 20 countries teamed up today to ask World Bank President Jim Kim to end Bank suppo…
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On the presidents visit to San Francisco, a plea to stand up for future generations
Friends of the Earth: Obama alone can kill the Keystone pipeline SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — President Obama arrives here Wednesday for a series of fundraisers. At 5:30 p.m., when he visits the Paci…
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SAN ONOFRE: Edisons restart request reduces safety to a footnote
Friends of the Earth briefing Tuesday on utility’s plan to circumvent full license review and public hearing WASHINGTON, D.C. — Southern California Edison’s draft request for a license amend…
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More than half a million Americans call on Obama administration to stop risky and dangerous drilling in the Arctic Ocean since Kulluk incident
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, a coalition of organizations announced that more than 500,000 Americans in the past three months have joined the call to demand the Obama administration put a stop to ris…
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San Onofre: Edison admits need for license amendment, but wants to circumvent safety questions
Friends of the Earth: Full public participation essential Washington, D.C. — After more than a year of denial, Southern California Edison is ready to concede that a license amendment is needed b…
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Friends of the Earth statement on Senate Keystone XL vote
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, by a vote of 62-37, the U.S. Senate attached a provision to the Senate Budget Resolution expressing support for the Keystone XL pipeline. This vote is non-binding and has n…