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24 hours to stop Keystone XL
UPDATE Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. EST: We’ve smashed through our initial goal of half a million and are now over 672,000 messages to the Senate! Unfortunately, some of Big Oil’s bought-and-paid-for f…
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Finally! California gets a ship sewage discharge ban
Today, the U.S. EPA signed a federal rule that will finalize EPA’s decision to approve a California state proposal to ban all sewage discharges from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-goi…
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A new resource for fighting dirty energy giveaways
There’s a lot of uncertainty around exactly how much taxpayer money the government gives out to Big Oil, Big Coal and the rest of the dirty energy industry each year in subsidies. But we know one th…
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Investigation reveals flaws in State Departments Keystone XL review process, raises fresh concerns
Department’s Office of Inspector General recommends reforms after finding procedural lapses and previously undisclosed financial relationship between TransCanada and Cardno Entrix, as well as insuff…
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update: FOIA request for Cardno Entrix contracts re-opened
5 p.m. update, Thursday, February 10, 2012: Friends of the Earth received an email from the State Department this afternoon indicating that our FOIA request for the contract with Cardno Entrix has bee…
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A salute to science over politics
Yesterday the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved a bill that would require the EPA to do a more thorough analysis on the effects for consumers, the economy, and the environment of…
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Building a better world at the Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
I had the privilege of participating in the Thematic Social Forum this past week in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Porto Alegre was where the very first World Social Forum took place back in 2001. The differen…
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Environmentalists threatened, murdered in El Salvador
Salvadoran environmentalists are fighting for a ban on destructive mining projects in the face of physical attacks at home, and legal attacks from abroad authorized by a U.S. trade agreement. Since 20…
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Bye-bye bunker fuel?
The Antarctic already has a ban in place on the use of bunker fuel by ships, the US and Canada are getting an Emission Control Area in August which could likely phase out bunker use in North American…
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The Olympic Coast is protected from cruise ship sewage. Puget Sound should be too
Cruise ship pollution poses a significant threat to marine resources. While treatment is required to discharge sewage and other wastewater, the U.S. EPA has found that older ship sewage treatment syst…