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With the UN’s high-level group on climate finance (AGF) set to finalize its report on mechanisms for delivering climate funds to developing countries at a meeting in Addis Ababa that begins Octobe…

The United States government has continually supported false solutions for our nation’s energy needs, including new nuclear reactors and “clean coal,” mostly in the guise of transitioning away f…

Climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are taking place October 4-9, 2010, in Tianjin, China. Friends of the Earth U.S.’s Karen Orenstein and Nick B…

In 2005, Friends of the Earth helped pass the California Clean Coast Act.  This act s…

Update — January 13, 2011 — In a historic decision, the EPA has vetoed the permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in West Virginia. This mountaintop removal project was one of the largest ever p…

Friends of the Earth has been working hard to prevent the approval by the FDA of AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon.  If approved, it would be the first genetically engineered animal t…

The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Appropriations is expected to consider rolling back the Clean Air Act on Thursday, September 16, and the vote could be extremely close. The Clean Air Act is…

Coal ash is a toxic solid waste generated by coal-burning power plants. It’s shockingly unregulated, and it’s piling up at more than 600 dump sites across the country spanning nearly every state…