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Biden Administration Rejects Calls to Phase Out Oil, Gas on Public Lands by 2035
Responding to a lawsuit by conservation groups, the Biden administration has officially rejected a rulemaking petition from more than 360 U.S. climate, Indigenous and conservation groups to phase out…
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Lawsuit Challenges Oil and Gas Drilling on California Public Lands
Conservation organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management seeking to halt the unlawful drilling of multiple oil and gas wells in California’s San…
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Artificial Intelligence: The Next Climate Wildfire?
New technology like artificial intelligence (AI) is entering increasingly widespread use with essentially no safety checks at all.
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Submission to Department of Commerce on AI
We agree with the Federal Trade Commission Chair that artificial intelligence risks turbocharging fraud and risks amplifying climate disinformation.
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Friends of the Earth Celebrates EPA’s Decision to Pull Dangerous EV Proposal
WASHINGTON – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard, which includes the removal of a proposal to expand the program by allowing electri…
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Biden Climate Ambition letter
We call on Biden to take meaningful action ahead of the UnitedNations Secretary General’s September Climate Ambition Summit.
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500+ International Groups: Biden Must Stop Fossil Fuel Expansion Ahead of September Climate Summit
More than 500 groups representing six continents sent a letter to President Biden today demanding he stop fossil fuel expansion ahead of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Climate Ambition Summ…
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State Department faces 2nd lawsuit over expedited Amos Hochstein FOIA request
Friends of the Earth has sued the U.S. Department of State for a second time over an expedited 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request targeting Biden energy official Amos Hochstein and potenti…
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Submission to Dept of Commerce NTIA
CAAD and other researchers have documented extensive examples of the harms of climate disinformation on social media in the U.S. that we believe could each be further worsened by the onset of GAI.
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Transition Minerals and Indigenous Impacts in the US
More than 600,000 Native Americans (about 15% of the Indigenous people in the West) live within approximately 6 miles of an abandoned mine.