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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…
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Obama’s Budget Makes Commitment to Clean Transportation
President Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Transportation begins the process of transitioning to a more…
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George Will Uses Washington Post Column to Lie about Global Warming
Conservative writer George Will provoked a firestorm after he deliberately sowed confusion ov…
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Changing the Course of Biofuels Policy
Friends of the Earth has been working with a small coalition of fellow environmental organizations to change the direction that biofuels policy is going. Our biofuels policy platform provides spe…
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World Social Forum IV comes to a close
Today we saw the World Social Forum IV come to a close under rainy skies. The rain unit…
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Nanotechnology, Public Engagement and Human Intent
Today we held our final workshop on nantechnology. This workshop was dedicated to the issue of nanotechnology and public engagement. We talked about how important it is for the public to discuss an…
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Nanotechnology and Worker Safety
Today our World Social Forum workshop focused on nanotechnology and worker safety. We…