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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…
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New report details risks of China Development Bank’s global footprint
SAN FRANCISCO — A new report, China Development Bank’s overseas investments: An assessment of environmental and social policies and practices, released today by Friends of the Earth U.S. and B…
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Save the dolphins: the 40 year battle is renewed
Who will join the fight to save the dolphins? Consumer boycotts and “save the dolphin” demonstrations over the course of many years resulted in a U.S. program for dolphin safe labeling for tuna pr…
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My thoughts on Rio
Rio+20 and the People’s Summit (attended by more than 50,000 people) both came to a close over the weekend. Much effort from many individuals was poured into relatively few days of meetings. Both ev…
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Outrage over the Obama administrations fast-tracking of Keystone XL bubbles over
A short piece appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, quietly noting that one of the three regional Army Corps of Engineers offices reviewing TransCanada’s federal permit application to build the…
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Protests challenge Obama administrations push to rubber-stamp the Keystone XL pipeline southern segment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Army Corps of Engineers began granting TransCanada fast-tracked approval to start building the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline this…
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Green Scissors 2012 finds ending environmentally destructive federal programs would save almost $700 billion
Congress could move a long way toward solving the nation’s twin problems of spiraling budget costs and environmental degradation simply by cutting hundreds of billions in environmentally harmful…