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Objections Target Biden’s Oil Leasing Plan Amid Climate “Code Red”
Conservation groups filed formal objections today to the Biden administration’s plans to offer 734,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing amid what the president himself has called a clim…
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Friends of the Earth US responds to leaked Manchin memo on reconciliation
We can’t waste this opportunity to pass meaningful climate legislation because there might not be another.
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113 Groups Push TIAA to Divest from Fossil Fuels & Stop Land Grabs, Calling TIAA’s Net Zero by 2050 Plan “Wildly Inadequate” for the Climate Crisis
Today 113 climate justice, farm and food justice, human rights and environmental organizations joined to reject “false climate solutions” from TIAA.
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Senator Heinrich Signals Supports for Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies
New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich released a letter yesterday to several environmental groups confirming that he supports ending federal subsidies to oil and gas companies
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Friends of the Earth US Statement on China’s Announcement on No New Overseas Coal Plants
This reflects years of patient, persistent work of communities and activists to stop harmful coal projects around the world.
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100 Groups Demand Biden Cut Airplane Climate Pollution
One hundred environmental, community and public-health groups called on the Biden administration today to set strong standards to cut airplane pollution.
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New Report reveals Big Oil’s $86B offshore tax bonanza
A new report from Friends of the Earth, Oxfam America, and BailoutWatch shines a light on $86 billion worth of offshore tax loopholes benefiting Big Oil.
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Friends of the Earth urges Biden to contribute US’ fair share of climate finance to developing countries
President Biden’s climate finance pledge today is extraordinarily insufficient compared to the need and out of line with what climate science and justice demand.
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Lawsuit calls out Biden administration for allowing oil operators to harm Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears
Groups sued the Biden administration today for issuing a regulation that allows oil and gas companies to harass Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears despite the likelihood of causing injury and death.
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New Facebook study: 99 percent of climate disinformation goes unchecked
New analysis by Friends of the Earth uses Facebook data to show that their approach misses the point, and will still likely miss the vast majority of disinformation.