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Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline and Tar Sands Oil Getting Under Big Oil’s Skin
The campaign to stop the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline has been growing as communities that would be impacted by the pipeline team up with groups like Friends of the Earth, grassroots…
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Civil Society Groups Deliver Letter to UN Climate Finance Body
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…
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Liquid Coal: An impending environmental disaster
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…
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UN Negotiations Underway in Tianjin, China
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…
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Support California’s Ship Sewage Dumping Ban
In 2005, Friends of the Earth helped pass the California Clean Coast Act. This act s…
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Appalachia is Rising to Abolish Mountaintop Removal Mining
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…
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Dead in the water
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…
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Call on Your Senator to Save the Clean Air Act
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…