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Introducing the 2013 Goldman Prize winners
This week is always a special week for Friends of the Earth U.S. Around this time every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize announces the recipients of its prestigious award. Modeled after the Nobel Peace Prize, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots activists from six regions of the world for their… Read More
Robin Hood comes to Congress
This morning, I joined Representatives Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) as well as the leaders of Health Gap, National Nurses United, National Peoples Action, Demos and Vocal to announce the introduction of the Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2013 (H.R. 1579). The… Read More
Human genes belong to human beings
Today, I stood with women’s health activists, BRCA-positive women and activists and organizations from across the country in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to express Friends of the Earth’s support and solidarity with Breast Cancer Action, the Association for Molecular Pathology, and the other plaintiffs in their… Read More
The NRC – Edison’s atomic lapdog
To say that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — charged with ensuring the safe operation of the nation’s aging, degraded nuclear fleet — is a paper tiger would be far too kind. Rather than just de-fanged and flimsy, on Wednesday, they went rogue — disregarding the demands of federal legislators and… Read More
How to Stretch a Penny (Ask Robin Hood)
Though a number of wealthy countries attending a State Department-convened climate finance ministerial meeting on mobilizing private money have been trying to escape their obligation to use public funds to help the world’s poor confront the climate crisis (which, incidentally, the poor did not cause), Robin Hood found them today… Read More
Pro-poor Climate Finance: Is There a Role for Private Finance in the Green Climate Fund?
New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance. This invitation-only event, hosted for finance and climate ministries of select donor countries, typifies… Read More
The Medicine Bow coal to gasoline plant comes at too great a risk, too high a cost
Since the project’s inception in 2006, Friends of the Earth has advocated against the use of public funds for the proposed coal to gasoline plant in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Despite claims from DKRW, the Enron-headed company behind the project, that it could be financed though private investment, it has repeatedly… Read More
Why the World Bank must end its support for palm oil in Honduras
In a press release issued yesterday by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why: Read More
A Paradigm Shift? Really?
The third meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund wrapped up last week. Though “paradigm shift” emerged as the new catch-phrase of GCF discourse — as the fund’s governing instrument calls for a “paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways” — the board meeting was almost anything… Read More
Coming to a grocery store near you: The Campaign for GE-Free Seafood!
Friends of the Earth is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood. As we recently reported, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is in the final stages of approving genetically engineered salmon for… Read More