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Trade and Investment
The Friends of the Earth trade campaign draws attention to the trade and investment rules which threaten environmental protection, and works to advance policies which instead promote sustainable devel…
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Tax Day Protest Against Nukes
While it may not have exactly been what organizers of the April 15 tax day protests had in mind, Friends of the Earth supporters took a no-taxes-for-nukes message to the “tea party” rally at the S…
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Plug-In Electric Vehicles Finally Receive Substantial Funding
Friends of the Earth has long promoted plug-in electric vehicles as a way…
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Happy Biofools Day!
Congratulations to Secretary Tom Vilsack With 2,424 votes — more than the total number cast last year — the 2011 Biofool of the Year is Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack! There’s no d…
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Threats to Forest Protections in RFS Continue
Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD) is at it again, advocating for the removal of critical forest protections in the Renewable Fuels Standard. She has re-introduced her bill that would change t…
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Ship Shape: Oil Spill Prevention Victory
We recently passed the the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. And what is there to remember from such an awful environmental disaster? Maybe the thousands of gallons of crude oil s…
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Subprime Carbon Testimony
Friends of the Earth’s Michelle Chan testified before the Ways and Means Committee on March 26, 2009 abou…
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Global Warming Provisions in Biofuels Policy Threatened
The biofuels lobby is, yet again, urging the EPA to ignore emissions from indirect land use change in EPA’s accounting of global warming pollution from biofuels. And corn-state Senators have
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Obama Budget Repeals $30 Billion in Oil and Gas Giveaways
President Obama’s first budget did away with over $30 billion in giveaways to oil and gas companies. Friends of the Earth has been working for years to end these give aways to multi-national comp…