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Joint advocacy efforts on biofuels policy
Friends of the Earth works to bring together diverse interests opposed to ethanol subsidies. We work with other environmental advocates, organizations that advocate against hunger and poverty, ind…
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Stop subsidizing harmful development
Many of us have driven through coastal communities and looked admiringly at houses nestled close to the water. What we don’t often think about is the fact that many of these houses are built on land…
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Friends of the Earth demands public disclosure of information regarding safety problems at troubled San Onofre reactors
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Nuclear watchdog Friends of the Earth is filing a public records request today with the California Public Utilities Commission calling for the urgent release of information r…
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La NRC responde a la crisis en la planta nuclear de San Onofre en California
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to the announcement that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending an “Augmented Inspection Team” to California to investigate safety problems at rea…
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Strange bedfellows oppose Natural Gas Act
In what is becoming a summer ritual high gas prices are again at the forefront of the national consciousness. With the U.S. consuming 20 percent of the world’s oil supply and controlling only 2 perc…
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End corporate welfare for oil companies
President Obama has identified over $4.7 billion that the oil and gas industry should pay under standard tax rules this year but that will remain in company coffers because the industry receives pre…
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New declaration calls for precautionary oversight for the emerging field of synthetic biology
Self-regulation of the synthetic biology industry simply won’t work. Current laws and regulations around biotechnology are outdated and inadequate to deal with the novel risks posed by synthetic bio…
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Global coalition calls for oversight of synthetic biology
Friends of the Earth is thrilled to release the Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology, the first global declaration from civil society to outline principles that must be adopted to protect…
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Fukushima: One year later
One year ago I, like many people across the United States and around the world, watched as the horrible images flooded in from Japan and the Fukushima Province after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and r…
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Contract for Keystone XL review was between TransCanada and Cardno Entrix, State Department documents confirm
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Under pressure from Friends of the Earth, the State Department today made public the third-party contract and conflict of interest documents for the environmental review of t…