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We recently passed the the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.  And what is there to remember from such an awful environmental disaster?  Maybe the thousands of gallons of crude oil s…

Friends of the Earth’s Michelle Chan testified before the Ways and Means Committee on March 26, 2009 abou…

The biofuels lobby is, yet again, urging the EPA to ignore emissions from indirect land use change in EPA’s accounting of global warming pollution from biofuels.  And corn-state Senators have

Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to…

President Obama’s first budget did away with over $30 billion in giveaways to oil and gas companies. Friends of the Earth has been working for years to end these give aways to multi-national comp…

President Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Transportation begins the process of transitioning to a more…

Conservative writer George Will provoked a firestorm after he deliberately sowed confusion ov…

Friends of the Earth has been working with a small coalition of fellow environmental organizations to change the direction that biofuels policy is going.  Our biofuels policy platform provides spe…

Transportation in the U.S. is respo…

Today we saw the World Social Forum IV come to a close under rainy skies. The rain unit…