On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means committee held its “Hearing on Energy Tax Incentives Driving the Green Job Economy.” At the hearing, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) took a bold stand against the coal industry, arguing that “clean coal” is a conflict in terms. Rep. Doggett said clean coal is like “safe poison.”
The spread of genetic engineering (GE) technology exacerbates the corporate consolidation occurring in the seed industry. This trend will continue, if not worsen, in livestock once the genetically engineering and cloning of animals is commercialized and becomes more prevalent. We must put a stop to this technology before it spreads to protect the livelihood of family farmers and the future of our food supply.
A coalition of organizations, including Friends of the Earth, have signed a letter asking President Obama to recognize that solutions to the climate crisis must be agreed upon at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as it is the only space that respects the sovereign and equal rights of all countries – those most responsible for climate change and those most affected by it – to protect their economies, their people, their…
After a recent and unprecedented victory to reduce shipping air pollution in North America with the adoption of an Emission Control Area -- precipitated by domestic and international advocacy from Friends of the Earth -- our organization is turning its attention to vessel pollution in the Arctic waters of the frozen North.
In late March, Representative Earl Pomeroy introduced a bill that would extend the tax credits for corn ethanol by five years. The cost of extending the tax credits for corn ethanol would be over $31 billion dollars, with practically no impact on ethanol production.
The U.S. District Court of New York held yesterday in Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al. that patents on human genes that correlate with increased risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer are invalid since genes and DNA sequences are naturally occurring.
Mike is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations, an indigenous community located at Fort Chipewyan (or Fort Chip for short) in Alberta, Canada. European traders established an outpost here in 1821, and in subsequent years the tar sands industry has sunk its teeth into the land and the inhabitants.
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On March 26, 2010, an international body governing the shipping industry approved rules to limit harmful air pollution from ships in most U.S. and Canadian waters. The rules are expected to prevent millions of illnesses and 14,000 premature deaths by 2020. The rules will begin to take effect in 2012. By 2015, ships traveling within 200 miles of U.S. shores will be required to cut their air pollution by 80 percent or more.