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Bloody REDD: The fight against forest carbon offsets in California
This week, Friends of Earth, along with 30 other organizations based in California, urged Governor Brown to prevent international REDD carbon credits from entering California’s carbon trading system…
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Down the tubes: San Onofre’s steam generators in worst shape of all U.S. nuclear plants
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…
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Skeletons in the closet
Leaked Edison document exposes San Onofre as worst in the nation The crippled steam generators in the San Onofre nuclear reactors have earned the Southern California Edison run plant the dubious disti…
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California groups urge Governor to reject international forest carbon credits
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 cred…
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Opposition to GE mosquito release heating up
Activist opposition to the proposed plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is starting to heat up — and the media is increasingly taking notice. Last month, I sent…
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TPP trade negotiations in San Diego: a dagger through the heart
“The trade ministers get together to set the rules of trade. They don’t worry about the environment; that’s somebody else’s agenda. Trade above all — that’s the way the…
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The Renewable Fuel Standard: the (un)holy grail of U.S. biofuel policy
Tomorrow morning the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold what will likely be the only Congressional hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard this year. The hearing, titled “The American En…
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Record heat, freak storms and brutal drought: visions from our climate future
On Friday evening, my husband Patrick and I were putting our daughter to bed and preparing an emergency kit at the same time. Due to the heat wave that had struck the lower southeast, we had already s…
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White House pushes risky biofuels for military
This past week the Obama Administration announced $62 million in new funding for the advanced biofuels industry. The White House’s goal is to jump-starting the commercial-scale development of dr…
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New report on China Development Bank shows the bank lagging behind its peers
Over the past several years, Chinese overseas investments have had a powerful global impact, from the Gibe 3 dam in Ethiopia, to the Alberta tar sands in Canada, to the Shwe oil and gas project in Mya…