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Its not only sewage you have to worry about
Pro Publica’s “Cruise Control” reveals crimes, deaths and emerging infectious diseases Friends of the Earth issues an annual report card, grading the environmental aspects of cruise ships including sewage treatment, air pollution reduction, and water quality compliance. Pro Publica addresses a different facet of the cruise industry, which is… Read More
World Environment Day: Celebrating community management
The below blog post, by Friends of the Earth International Forests and Biodiversity program coordinator Isaac Rojas, was originally posted on foei.org. Friends of the Earth International has celebrated World Environment Day on June 5 every year since 1973. This year we celebrate it by recalling the importance of… Read More
The fight continues against Keystone XL and the tar sands invasion
A dirty fuel is quietly creeping over the Canadian border and invading the Midwest. In the more than six years that we have stopped the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from being built, numerous other tar sands pipelines have been proposed, with some already constructed. The production and extraction of… Read More
US move to curb airplane emissions ‘may amount to greenwashing’
Environmental groups have warned that the first step by the Obama administration to curb rapidly rising carbon pollution from airplanes, expected as early as Friday, may amount to little more than greenwashing. The announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency is eight years in the making and comes in response to… Read More
Back off, Alaskan energy group tells Shell activists
With pressure building on Shell’s port activity in Seattle, an Alaskan energy coalition said the state’s economy won’t be held hostage by external activists. Back off, Alaskan energy group tells Shell activists -UPI 6/3/2015… Read More
Alaska beware: Shell Oil is on its way, and it’s larger, louder and dirtier than ever
Shell Oil has spent many years and billions of dollars in the reckless pursuit of oil in the American Arctic Ocean. All that is standing in their way from starting exploratory drilling this summer is a few remaining permits from the federal government. Shell could not have gotten this far,… Read More
Corn Ethanol Is Worse Than Keystone
For years, environmental activists have opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, claiming that development of Canada’s oil sands will be “game over for the climate.” But if those same activists are sincere about climate change, why aren’t they getting arrested outside the White House to protest the use of corn ethanol?… Read More
EPA Nears Decision on Aircraft Emissions Risk to Climate
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has proposed carbon dioxide limits on coal-fired power plants, is nearing a decision on whether to regulate aircraft emissions in response to global warming. The federal agency is scheduled to issue a determination this month on burning jet fuel and its potential danger to… Read More
Department of the Interior unlawfully sells Arctic Ocean lease to oil companies … again
In February 2008, the Department of the Interior offered nearly 30 million acres of pristine, sensitive Arctic ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea for oil and gas leasing, known as Lease Sale 193. The agency’s environmental impact analysis failed to properly evaluate basic scientific information about the Chukchi Sea and… Read More
How Garden Centers Are Getting Toxic, Bee-Killing Pesticides Out of Their Plants and Off of Their Shelves
Over the last decade, we’ve heard the term “colony collapse disorder” a lot, describing the die-off of honeybees, pollinators essential to maintaining our food crops. Scientists have been looking for the cause and have identified one likely source as the neonicotinoids used in pesticides. How Garden Centers Are Getting… Read More