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A glimmer of light: Fracking bans pass across the country
The media is all abuzz about the big conservative wins throughout the country last night. Yet despite the flurry of victories for anti-environmental and pro-fossil fuel candidates, another story is al…
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High steaks: The case for less and better meat
The meat at the center of your plate is also at the center of some of our world’s greatest ecological and public health threats: deforestation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, climate change, wat…
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Four Halloween scares from ExxonMobil and Chevron
This morning, ExxonMobil and Chevron—the largest and the second-largest oil companies in the US—announced their third quarter profits for 2014. In spite of gloomy expectations that the recent drop…
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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…