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AquaBounty fined for repeated environmental violations on genetically engineered salmon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials in Panama have ruled that AquaBounty Technologies’ has been operating in violation of environmental regulations as it experiments with genetically engineered salmo…
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In federal court filing, PG&E and nuclear regulator said to collude in secret decision to cover up Diablo Canyons vulnerability to earthquakes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth has petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a secret decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to illegally alter the operating license for the D…
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Trans Pacific trade ministers declaration suggests no breakthrough
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, held for three days behind closed doors in Sydney, Australia, have concluded with no indication of a breakthrough. A press state…
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Washington, D.C. gardeners tell Lowes: Dont be a little shop of horrors for bees, stop selling bee-killing pesticides
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Wednesday, local gardeners and Friends of the Earth, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety, Organic Consumers Association and GMO Inside will swarm Lowe’s in New Carrol…
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Obama administration delays critical action to protect bees until at least 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, at the 14th annual North American Pollinator Protection Campaign International Conference, the White House announced a several month delay in the release of its pollinato…
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World Trade Organization veils meaty information
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A World Trade Organization tribunal ruled today that the U.S. law requiring country-of-origin labeling for meat violates international trade law, essentially denying Americans the…
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EPA finds neonicotinoids no benefit to U.S. soybean production
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency released an analysis today confirming that neonicotinoid seed treatments offer little or no increase in economic benefit to U.S. soybean produc…
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Friends of the Earth commends Whole Foods first step into the fight to save pollinators
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFM) issued a new product rating system today called Responsibly Grown that grades fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers as “good, better or best” based upo…
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Friends of the Earth petitions NRC to include alarming new seismic data in considering Diablo Canyon license renewal
Request follows dramatic findings that nuclear reactors are surrounded by stronger and interconnected earthquake faults WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth has filed a petition to intervene in t…
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Green Climate Fund meeting serves as harbinger of success for 2015 Paris climate summit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Next week, Barbados — a small island, developing state threatened by climate-induced sea level rise — will host a critical board meeting of the United Nations Green C…