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Thanks for making 2013 a landmark year for our Earth!
The movement to protect the Earth got a big boost in 2013. Inspired by our campaigns, more than 100,000 people added their names to our activist list, making us more than 350,000 strong. That means that in 2014 we’re ready to ramp up the pressure on Home Depot, Lowe’s, and… Read More
Stop Fast Track: Radio AM950 broadcasts on trade agreements and the environment
On New Years Day, Ian Levitt, the host of The Daily Report on Minnesota radio station KTNF, devoted an hour of his program to the threat to the environment posed by pending Trans Atlantic and Trans Pacific trade agreements. These agreements could be approved on an expedited schedule and… Read More
What’s driving the palm oil industry’s human rights abuses and environmental destruction? Just follow the money
If you’re an American looking to do your part to protect tropical rainforests, you need look no further than your kitchen pantry. As you’ve likely heard by now from Friends of the Earth and others, the world’s leading killer of tropical forests is palm oil — and palm oil derivatives… Read More
Keystone contractor gives us 5 more reasons it has a conflict of interest
Politico just broke a big story. Environmental Resources Management, the firm hired by the State Department to do the environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, is a member of five oil industry booster groups that have advocated for the approval of the pipeline and spent… Read More
Friends of the Earth protests Pacific trade deal
Friends of the Earth and its allies are protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership: a colossal, job destroying free trade agreement being negotiated in secret among nations bordering the Pacific that will result in rollbacks of environmental, public health, food safety and other public interest protections. Unless we raise our… Read More
Illegal palm plantations and illicit land grabs threaten the worlds last forests
Illegal and destructive production of palm oil in Indonesia is continuing, with a chain of culpability that spreads worldwide, from Southeast Asian rain forests to supermarket shelves and Wall Street board rooms. Our new report, Commodity Crimes: Illicit Land Grabs, Illegal Palm Oil and Endangered Orangutans, offers yet more… Read More
Missing permits raise stakes for escape of AquaBountys genetically engineered salmon
International groups call on Panamanian government to correct flaws in regulatory oversight WASHINGTON, D.C. — AquaBounty’s experimental production facility of genetically engineered salmon in Panama is missing multiple legally required permits and inspections, including a wastewater discharge permit, according to an administrative claim filed today in Panama by the environmental group… Read More
75 African groups demand Obama stop pushing dirty energy through Power Africa
Coinciding with the UN climate conference in Warsaw, 75 African groups from 18 countries sent a letter to President Obama concerning his Power Africa initiative. The letter was released as the world commemorated the anniversary of the murder of Nigerian playwright and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was sentenced to… Read More
NY Gov. Cuomo’s approval of disastrous Hudson River bill will increase future storm damage and inflict potentially catastrophic costs on taxpayers, critics say
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s approval of A.8031/S.5824, a bill to subsidize building in the lower Hudson River off Manhattan, was called a “disastrous move to put more people in harm’s way in the riskiest possible location — a #1 Hurricane Evacuation Zone in the lower Hudson River,” Marcy Benstock,… Read More
Addressing the climate crisis with a Robin Hood Tax
As president of Friends of the Earth U.S., I am proud to support, on behalf of our more than 250,000 members and activists and in solidarity with our friends from numerous activist organizations, a Robin Hood Tax. Friends, if it isn’t all ready clear, we are in this together. The… Read More