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Watchdogs to Senate: Oppose Sam Clovis at USDA
Trump’s pick of an unqualified climate-denying, extreme right-wing talk show host with no credible science or agriculture background is a direct attack on science.
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Zinke reckless national monuments decision hands public lands to oil and gas industry
Zinke’s action is illegal and he can rest assured that his latest giveaway to corporate polluters will be litigated in the courts.
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DOE grid study a prelude to polluter bailout
Cheered by the coal and nuclear industries, the study could serve as a pretext for further subsidizing dirty baseload energy.
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McDonald’s unveils updated plan to reduce routine antibiotics use in its supply chain
In response to years of consumer and shareholder pressure to eliminate routine antibiotic use in its supply chain, today McDonald’s has taken an important step forward in the fight to preserve the e…
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Friends of the Earth Files Unsolicited Testimony with South Carolina Legislature on Termination of Nuclear Reactor Project
With its testimony, Friends of the Earth wants to both underscore that not involving public interest groups raises questions about how the committees are conducting their business and to also provide…
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Secret NAFTA talks wind down: people and the planet put at risk
How can Donald Trump justify a system in which major decisions about domestic public policy, including environmental policy, are made in secret?
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Friends of the Earth Statement on Steve Bannon
White Supremacists like Steve Bannon and Donald Trump do not belong in the White House. Firing one person does not end Trump’s hateful and bigoted agenda and there is much more to be done to end inj…
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Closed door NAFTA negotiation silences those who want clean air and water
Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation objectives will be destructive for people and the planet. By holding this week’s NAFTA talks behind closed doors, keeping the negotiating text secret, and shutting out…
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FDA on “Bleeding” veggie burger: “no basis for safety”
The company privately admitted to the FDA that it had not conducted or designed safety tests of burger’s key GMO ingredient.
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Formal Intervention Filed with SC Public Service Commission Concerning SCE&G’s “Abandonment Plan” for Canceled Nuclear Reactor Construction Project
The troubled nuclear construction project and charge ratepayers $2.2 billion over the next 60 years to pay for the failed project.