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Clean Power Plan blog post series
As the December 1 comment deadline approaches for the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan, Friends of the Earth is launching a series of blog posts on Daily Kos explaining the rule&…
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The Diablo Canyon reactors and the fight for a safe, nuclear-free California (updating)
Below is an ongoing timeline of developments regarding the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors. Check back for news updates as they happen.
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The secret to lower emissions and higher revenue is a carbon tax
While the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Air Act 111(d) regulation did not explicitly allow a carbon price, it acknowledges the need to consider a carbon tax before the final rul…
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Climate change — whose security?
There is no doubt that climate change is going to cause widespread social disruption. Nevertheless, focusing too hard on the national security aspect probably isn’t the best idea. Higher walls are n…
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Nine reasons why REDD is a false folution: New Report from Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth International has just released its most recent assessment of the suite of carbon-trading forestry policies known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, or REDD…
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Letter to Departments of Interior and Agriculture: Account for the social cost of carbon
A coalition of environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, sent a letter today to Secretary of the Department of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Tom…
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Arrests and displacement rock villages in palm oil landgrab in Bengkulu, Indonesia
In April of this year, I visited a pair of villages in Bengkulu, Indonesia, where the Indonesian palm oil company PT Sendabi Indah Lestari (PT SIL) — a company that allegedly supplies palm oil…
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Great-granddaughter of General Mills founder urges company to stop using GMOs
This blog post has been adapted from a statement made by Harriett Crosby, Friends of the Earth board member and General Mills shareholder, at the company’s shareholder meeting on Tuesday, September…
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To Ban Ki-moon: Champion public funds for climate finance, fight greenwashing of green bonds
In light of this week’s U.N. General Assembly and Climate Summit, 118 groups from 37 countries urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (1) to ensure that private finance is not counted as inter…
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Six years of powerful resistance to Keystone XL
Today we celebrate six years of successful campaigning against the Keystone XL pipeline. Every day we succeed in keeping fossil fuels in the ground is a victory for humanity and our planet. The fact t…