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Cool Interactive Tool Shows You How Taxpayer Money Could Be Spent Instead of Subsidizing Big Oil
As the new Republican-led Congress gets underway, we’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about cutting the social safety net programs that throw a lifeline to those in need and help people climb out of poverty—things like food assistance, free school lunches and Pell Grants that pay for college. And while some… Read More
‘Failure of Conscience’: Groups Urge Congress to Fund Social Well-Being, Not Fossil Fuel Industry
A coalition of environmental and social justice groups has come together to declare collective disgust with the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars on unnecessary subsidies for the oil and gas industries when that same money could be used to improve the lives of millions if spent on social services,… Read More
Ranking the best and the worst cruises for the environment (spoiler alert: it’s not pretty)
Sustainably speaking, taking a cruise is a pretty dicey proposition. After all, any practice that centers around loading a few thousand people into a giant steel behemoth, motoring them around environmentally sensitive areas and feeding them extravagantly is going to burn a lot of fuel, consume a lot of water,… Read More
U.S. Congress Blocks World Bank Move to Slash Safeguards
Environmental and social justice groups in the United States and around the world are applauding a provision of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Act, passed by the U.S. Congress just before the Christmas recess. The measure requires the U.S. Treasury Department to oppose any World Bank policy that provides less protection for… Read More
Mexico’s human rights record raises questions for California REDD policy
Friends of the Earth Mexico and Friends of the Earth U.S. sent a letter to California officials yesterday, urging them to forego any joint agreement with Mexico on climate change, carbon trading and REDD until the Mexican government proves itself capable of guaranteeing the security of the population. Read More
Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas
Cruise ships have become the symbol of all that’s gone haywire in the tourism industry. Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas -New York Times 1/5/2015… Read More
Murky waters: the hidden environmental impacts of your cruise
Disney and other cruise holiday operators are trying to clean up their acts and make cruising a greener holiday choice. But why aren’t they being more transparent about it? Those selling cruise holidays promise pristine waters, cloudless skies and sunny ports of call. Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be… Read More
Interview with Erich Pica
President, Friends of the Earth on their current campaigns to save the bees, climate and energy, food and technology, oceans and forests and the economics for the earth. Interview with Erich Pica -21st Century Radio LIVE 1/4/2015… Read More
New diet guidelines might affect environmental cost
For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are better for your own health, but for the environment as well. That means that when the latest… Read More
25 Years After Exxon Valdez, U.S. Mandates Double-Hull Oil Tankers
Oil tankers bring about 15 million gallons of oil every day into Washington state. Starting January 1, those ships are required to have double hulls to reduce the risk of an oil spill. The change has been in the works for decades. It often happens this way. It takes a… Read More