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On Sunday, May 15, more than 1,200 people rallied in front of the White House and marched to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to call on the Obama administration to stop offshore drilling. The rally was part of Break Free 2016, a global wave of resistance to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and to accelerate a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.
The rally featured speakers from Alaska, the…
The U.S. Export-Import Bank loves to remind us that it is not a development agency, and, therefore, is not held to the same requirements as say a development finance institution. Even still, some of the governments that the head of Ex-Im, Fred Hochberg, has recently been meeting with would be enough to give anyone pause. While Ex-Im Bank’s mission might not be to alleviate poverty, Friends of the Earth…
The Keep It in the Ground campaign has built a powerful movement demanding climate action. By standing strong against the sale of public lands and waters to fossil fuel empires, activists have shined a spotlight on fossil fuel leasing and helped delay and shutter new projects. The question that has been asked about the campaign is whether keeping fossil fuels in the ground in the United States can actually reduce the world’s greenhouse gas…
Today, an international coalition of over 70 organizations launched a call on financial regulators in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, China, Europe and the United States to apply emergency sanctions on major commercial banks, to stop financing companies that are known to contribute to the massive forest fires that annually choke much of Southeast Asia.
The demand went out to dozens of bank CEO’s and financial regulators in Asia, Europe and the United States, in a…
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We may only have days to stop the financing for a dangerous, proposed coal project in Indonesia already plagued by human rights violations. Our Japanese and Indonesian allies have asked the international community to help put public pressure on the Japanese government to reject financing this coal project while there’s still time. If built, the proposed Batang coal plant in Central Java, Indonesia would pose serious…
Agrichemical companies and their allies are spending tens of millions of dollars a year on tobacco-style PR tactics to flood news outlets and social media platforms with misleading messages.
Thousands of Bangladeshis participated in a “Long March” from the capital city of Dhaka to the Sundarbans forest March 10 to March 13 to protest the construction of various coal projects proposed for Bangladesh. They sent a strong message of opposition to local industry and government officials as well as international decision-makers. During this four-day, 155-mile-long demonstration, protesters had one demand: “Save the Sundarbans!” The Sundarbans forest, a UNESCO World Heritage…
The Obama administration and the fossil fuel industry are pushing Congress to approve a Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Japan and 10 other Asia-Pacific countries that would ramp up global warming. Friends of the Earth is working in a united campaign with Sierra Club, 350.org and other environmental groups to counter the dirty energy companies by educating the public and members of Congress about the climate threat posed by the TPP.
The…
Gulf Coast residents and activists from around the country came together yesterday to stand strong against the Fossil Fuel Empires who submitted bids to drill on 43 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. The lease sale was part of the 2012-2017 offshore drilling program approved by the Obama administration. Participants in the rally included Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Florida who sang, recited poetry and spoke out against the atrocities the…