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Biofools Day is rapidly approaching! We’re calling out some of the biggest promoters of harmful industrial biofuels. We’ve highlighted five major biofuels proponents, including corporate executive…

Happily, at the end of 2009 several environmentally damaging tax credits expired.  These subsidies went to a range of dirty energy sources, including fossil fuels and bioenergy, at the expense of…

Hundreds of Friends of the Earth supporters joined a coalition of more than 200,000 NGOs, farmers, consumers, and organic producers in calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prohib…

Did you know that around 20 percent of the human genome has been patented? That corporations and researc…

By Ben Schreiber, Climate and Energy Tax Analyst for Friends of the Earth

A new report from Friends of the Earth International reveals that claims made by the biotech industry that genetically modified (GM) crops can combat climate change are both exaggerated and prematu…

In early February 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final rules on the Renewable Fuels

Friends of the Earth recently released two TV ads in South Carolina and Georgia opposing the Obama administration’s proposed bailout of the nuclear industry.  For more information about the…

Below, are resources and information on Friends of the Earth’s tar sands campaigns.   Fact sheets: General tar sands fact…

The two-week climate conference in Copenhagen this past December produced the Copenhagen Accord. The Accord is a two-and-a-half page document that emerged in the final days of the summit, containing…