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Iowans: Oppose the rate hike for new nuclear reactors
Friends of the Earth and our activists have been fighting a bill in the Iowa state legislature that would raise customers’ electric rates to pay in advance for the construction of new nuclear re…
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Texas landowner calls out Obama on Keystone XL fast-tracking
Yesterday, President Obama shamelessly stood in front of piles of Keystone XL pipe near Cushing, Oklahoma, touting his ‘all of the above’ strategy to solving our energy woes and the climate crisis…
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President Obama’s wrong energy answer: all of the above
I wish every test and every decision we made had the answer “all of the above” as an option. It would definitely make life easier. It would make Friday evening conversations with my wife a breeze:…
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Key West community raises concerns with GE mosquito release plan
On March 15th, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District hosted a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key West. We organized our Friends of the E…
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Joint advocacy efforts on biofuels policy
Friends of the Earth works to bring together diverse interests opposed to ethanol subsidies. We work with other environmental advocates, organizations that advocate against hunger and poverty, ind…
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Stop subsidizing harmful development
Many of us have driven through coastal communities and looked admiringly at houses nestled close to the water. What we don’t often think about is the fact that many of these houses are built on land…
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Strange bedfellows oppose Natural Gas Act
In what is becoming a summer ritual high gas prices are again at the forefront of the national consciousness. With the U.S. consuming 20 percent of the world’s oil supply and controlling only 2 perc…
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End corporate welfare for oil companies
President Obama has identified over $4.7 billion that the oil and gas industry should pay under standard tax rules this year but that will remain in company coffers because the industry receives pre…
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Global coalition calls for oversight of synthetic biology
Friends of the Earth is thrilled to release the Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology, the first global declaration from civil society to outline principles that must be adopted to protect…
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Fukushima: One year later
One year ago I, like many people across the United States and around the world, watched as the horrible images flooded in from Japan and the Fukushima Province after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and r…