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Celebrating the New Year with a victory against corn ethanol
With the beginning of the New Year came the expiration of the biggest subsidy for corn ethanol, the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit. Friends of the Earth campaigned against the tax subsidy, ni…
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Top five Friends of the Earth moments in 2011
At the end of every year, we tend to pause and reflect about the past 12 months, stopping to examine trends and to remember important events — usually in list form. And with all the year in, wor…
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Shell’s floating monster spill
Nigerians wait, helpless, for the massive spill from Shell’s Bonga offshore oil field to hit the coastal waters, shorelines and swamps. Telephone links to some of the coastal communities are tenu…
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The silver lining to a terribly dark cloud — the Green Climate Fund and Durban
There have been lots of “d” words used to describe the Durban climate talks that recently ended in South Africa —
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Floridians face genetically engineered mosquito threat
A private firm is planning to release potentially harmful genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys as early as January, endangering human health and the environment in what would become…
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Murkiness in Congress over tax relief bill forces Keystone XL back into debate
The first rule of Keystone XL: don’t underestimate the vice grip of Big Oil on our democracy, especially when it comes to its marquee project. A month ago, we were celebrating—skeptically. We had…
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Corn ethanol infrastructure: A bad Christmas gift from Congress
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it’s final round of funding earlier this week, and once again put the interest of corporate polluters before the environment or taxpaye…
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Genetically engineered salmon grilled at Senate Commerce hearing
Yesterday morning, the Senate Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard held a hearing on the environmental risks posed by genetically engineered salmon (archived web…
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Pac Rim case exposes trade pacts’ danger to democracy
“¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!,” or “the people united, will never be defeated,” resounded outside World Bank headquarters yesterday in downtown Washington, D.C. Friends of the…
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The Durban Deal – An initial analysis of the outcomes
If I looked up the accepted UN policies and procedure, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t find a “huddle” anywhere in there as a usual means to craft international law, but sure enough, in the wee hour…