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GM salmon company Aquabounty fined by Panama
US GM salmon company AquaBounty has been fined for regulatory failures at its Panama plant in a move that could set back approval of GM meat and fish in the US, reports IPS Officials in Panama have fined the local facility of a US biotechnology company for a series of… Read More
Group Asks Court For Review Of PG&Es Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor License Over Earthquake Fears
AVILA BEACH, San Luis Obispo County (CBS SF) — An environmental group asked a federal court Tuesday to review its claim that California’s last operating nuclear power plant is violating federal law and should be shut down at least temporarily. In a petition filed in Washington with the U.S. Circuit… Read More
Does Obama’s new EPA rule place a dangerous bet on natural gas?
This blog is part of a Friends of the Earth series analyzing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. To see the other posts, visit our website. To write comments on how to improve the plan, click here. Natural gas is set to be the biggest winner of the new Environmental… Read More
Trans Pacific trade ministers declaration suggests no breakthrough
Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, held for three days behind closed doors in Sydney, Australia, have concluded with no indication of a breakthrough. A press statement issued today by the trade ministers from the United States and 10 other countries merely repeated the same public relations generalities about “significant… Read More
Global South Brings United Front to Green Climate Fund
The United Nations’ key mechanism for funding climate change-related mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is now ready to receive funds, following a series of agreements between rich and poor economies. The agreements covered administrative but potentially far-reaching policies that will govern the mechanism, known as the Green Climate Fund… Read More
Whats in a baseline? Why starting in 2005 matters a lot
The Obama administration has finally announced new rules to tackle the largest single contributor to climate change in the United States: carbon emissions from power plants. The headlines after the release were that the rules will reduce power plant carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent from their 2005 levels. But… Read More
Ex-Im Bank Inspector General Investigating Financing of 4,000 MW Coal Project in India
The Inspector General of the U.S. Export Import Bank is investigating the bank’s financing of a 4,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant that environmentalists say is associated with “catastrophic” human rights, labor and environmental violations. Ex-Im Bank Inspector General Investigating Financing of 4,000 MW Coal Project in India -Bloomberg BNA… Read More
The nations bee crisis
Tiffany Finck-Haynes of Friends of the Earth talks to Moose about the nations bee crisis. The nation’s bee crisis [@20:40] -CBS Radio, Jordana Green Show with Moose Miller 10/20/14… Read More
The secret to lower emissions and higher revenue is a carbon tax
While the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Air Act 111(d) regulation did not explicitly allow a carbon price, it acknowledges the need to consider a carbon tax before the final rulemaking. Allowing states to implement a carbon tax as a means of complying with the rule makes economic and environmental sense. Read More
Are U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Supporting Coal Industry Human Rights Violations Overseas?
Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed… Read More