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One Disaster After Another: Will EXIM Chairman Reed Ever Learn?
EXIM continues to invest in projects with severe environmental impacts, human rights abuses, and detrimental effects on local communities and public health.
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FOE Statement on the appointment of Gina McCarthy to White House Climate Czar
We need transformational leadership. Friends of the Earth will be pushing McCarthy, Kerry and the Biden administration to meet this challenge.
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Honoring Cecil Corbin-Mark
He guided me and our board to more deeply understand Friends of the Earth’s potential in fighting for justice, holding us accountable to the commitments we made to each other and the planet.
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Five years out, the Paris Agreement is a reminder that the root causes of the climate crisis remain unaddressed
Five years later, we find our world mired in higher inequality, deeper crises of increasing unemployment, fossil fuel projects and bailouts for the most polluting companies
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Over 300 Groups Urge Dems to Block Dirty Energy Subsidies in Lame Duck Spending Deal
Congress cannot continue subsidizing this failing industry and worsening our dependence on fossil fuels.
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BlackRock Stewardship Expectations Must Address Indigenous Consultation And Forest Protection
BlackRock released its 2021 Stewardship Expectations, giving a window into what we can expect the world’s largest money manager to say and do on climate in the year ahead.
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Friends of the Earth Statement on Impending Nomination of Tom Vilsack for USDA Secretary
We are deeply disappointed that President-elect Biden appears to have selected an agribusiness lobbyist with a tarnished record on civil rights, consolidation, and the environment as his USDA Secretar…
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No confidence: Hochberg’s fossil fuel record makes him unfit to be a top aide for Biden
44 environmental groups sent a letter today decrying Fred Hochberg’s potential leadership as a top aide in the Biden Administration.
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70+ Organizations Oppose CARB Chair Mary Nichols for EPA
Over 70 organizations, led by California-based environmental justice groups, sent a letter to President-Elect Biden on Tuesday urging him to reject Mary Nichols as a prospective nominee to head the En…
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100+ groups oppose latest nuclear bailout scheme
Over 100 groups sent a letter today to Senators opposing the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act, a pro-nuclear bill scheduled for markup today in the Environment and Public Works Committee.