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Safety first is NOT the motto when it comes to cosmetics laws
Have you ever used toothpaste? What about deodorant or makeup? Do you wear sunscreen when you go outside? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you may want to read on. A few weeks ago the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee held a… Read More
Stop the New England tar sands oil pipeline
Enbridge, the Canadian oil giant responsible for a massive tar sands oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan not yet two years ago, now wants to pipe tar sands oil—the world’s dirtiest oil—through New England with its Trailbreaker pipeline project. The Trailbreaker tar sands pipeline project In August 2011,… Read More
Keystone XL “re-route” through Nebraska still threatens Sandhills & Ogallala
TransCanada yesterday unveiled its proposed alternative routes—including a preferred alternative route—through Nebraska for its Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline to the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. The Keystone XL pipeline would pump up to 830,000 barrels per day of the world’s dirtiest oil from beneath Canada’s boreal forest… Read More
117 groups urge Climate Investment Funds to sunset, support for Green Climate Fund
As the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual Spring Meetings get underway, 117 organizations from around the world today urged government funders of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds to pivot away from financing the CIFs and to redirect funds to the new UN Green Climate Fund. The apparent… Read More
More corn ethanol could mean higher gas prices
Washington is beautiful in the Spring: the cherry trees are in full bloom, children flock to the White House lawn for a century-long tradition of rolling eggs on Easter Monday, and hundreds of office workers breakout their well-worn leather mitts for another season of softball. However, spring in Washington also… Read More
We’re not broke: Tax Day and climate finance
Throughout the world, concerned individuals, groups and governments have been racking their brains, trying to figure out how on earth they’re going to be able to afford the costs of the climate crisis, made even worse by a climate of fiscal austerity. But part of the solution to finding… Read More
Pay the polluter $800 million! Trade deal injustice for the children of La Oroya.
“There is a silent epidemic here. The effects on the children are not easily visible, but they have all kinds of serious health problems, and those will only get worse if the smelter reopens,” says Hugo Villa, a local doctor. According to the Blacksmith Institute, a non-profit pollution… Read More
Local residents voice concerns about reactors in advance of NRC chairman visit
This morning, standing on the dunes above the Pacific Ocean near the San Onofre nuclear reactor site, San Onofre Safety, San Clemente Green, ROSE and other local groups held a press conference ahead of the afternoon visit to the reactors from the NRC chairman, Greg Jazcko. The groups organized… Read More
Shut down San Onofre: Dangerous nuclear reactors pose too great a threat
San Onofre reactor safety failures remind us (again) why the United States cannot afford the risks of nuclear reactors. In late January of this year, Friends of the Earth, while preparing an analysis on the Fukushima-daiichi nuclear accident, was investigating how the implications of that accident would impact nuclear… Read More
April fool–but secrecy in Trans Pacific trade negotiations is no joke
I was working away on my computer late last Saturday night, March 31, when suddenly this dramatic report from New Zealand came across on my e-mail: “End to Secrecy and Release of Draft TPP Text Hailed as ‘Triumph for Democracy.’ The nine parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA)… Read More