We all have a right to know whether the food we are eating has been genetically engineered.
Updates from a tour of Atlantic Canada – the center of the genetically engineered salmon controversy
During a week-long tour of Atlantic Canada, we will raise awareness on the risks of genetically engineered fish pose to our environment and our health. We’ve spent the past year urging the Food and Drug Administration to conduct proper environmental assessments on genetically engineered salmon, to deny approval of the so-called “Frankenfish,” or at the very least to label…
As another round of negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement between the United States and seven other Pacific countries began on October 19 in Peru, Friends of the Earth joined 20 other environmental and civil society groups to call for an end to secrecy in these important trade talks.
Evidence is mounting that the State Department's review of a proposed tar sands oil pipeline has been corrupted by bias, lobbyist influence and conflicts of interest. The growing scandal is making front-page headlines and putting new pressure on President Obama to stop the pipeline.
October 14, 2011: Our communications director has compiled a must-read list of coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline controversy. There’s been a lot of coverage. He's compiled some of the last week’s key stories here.
The tangled web of corruption surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline implicates lobbyists and government officials alike. DeSmogBlog, Oil Change International, The Other 98% and Friends of the Earth investigated the cozy relationships between key State Department officials and corporate lobbyists, and they lead all the way to the president’s doorstep.
President Obama made a campaign promise to shut out oil lobbyists, yet the State Department’s blatant bias toward approving the Keystone XL pipeline is a…
October 5, 2011
Since there’s been so much news related to the Keystone XL pipeline controversy subsequent to our release of the second round of State Department documents, we put together the following news roundup.
Breaking this a.m.: State Department sued to force halt to ongoing illegal pipeline constructionhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/usa-keystone-suit-idUSN1E7940FS20111005
WASHINGTON Oct 5 (Reuters) - Environmental groups sued the U.S. government on Wednesday to stop the clearing of grasslands, the moving of threatened…
With the release of the second batch of documents, the filing of a lawsuit to stop illegal pipeline construction work in Nebraska and the expansion of our Freedom of Information Act request, there has been extensive media coverage of the pro-pipeline bias and oil industry complicity within the State Department. Highlights of coverage of the influence scandal and of the broader fight to stop Keystone XL can be found below.
November 16, 2011
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Friends of the Earth and allies have obtained internal emails from the State Department that provide definitive evidence of bias and complicity in the department's review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.
The emails are a key part of a growing influence scandal in which the review has become corrupted by bias, lobbyist influence and conflicts of interest.
Thus far, we have received two rounds of documents from the State Department in…
On September 15, 2011, McDonald’s and 14 other chain restaurants called on the super committee to go on a diet by cutting back on corn subsidies.
Citing high corn prices, the National Council of Chain Restaurants and many of its members urged Congress to allow VEETC (the refundable Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit) to expire this December. VEETC costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year by providing tax breaks to the oil industry for blending…