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Friends of the Earth International on IPCC Report: Betting on carbon removal is dangerous
Today’s IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report confirms that human activity has caused a level of warming that is unprecedented in the last 2,000 years. The impacts of climate change are most keenly felt in vuln…
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Lawsuit Launched Over U.S. Delay on Petition to Phase Out Oil Drilling on Public Lands
Conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department for failing to respond to a petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands.
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Conservation groups sue to stop the Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s Western Arctic
Earthjustice filed a lawsuit today on behalf of conservation groups, together with NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), to stop the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Western A…
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Conservation Groups Sue DOE Over Stalled Review of Methane Gas Export Policy
Conservation groups sued the Department of Energy (DOE) today for failing to timely respond to their petition for rulemaking calling on the agency to issue regulations defining whether proposed gas ex…
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Friends of the Earth Slams Biden Approval of Climate Disaster Willow Project
Today, the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management announced its approval of the ConocoPhillips Willow Project in the Western Arctic, the largest oil extraction project ever proposed on fed…
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Managing to Fight Disinformation
Disinformation is a threat to the stability of democracy and undermines our ability to tackle nearly every problem we face — from addressing climate change to securing LGBTQ+ rights to ensuring publ…
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Anti-ESG Disinformation Network Analysis
Our analysis suggests ESG investing was given an ideologically charged framing from a network of influential, anti-“woke” actors and became yet another climate-related culture war topic leading up…
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Lawsuit Challenges Biden Decision to Open 73.3 Million Acres of Gulf of Mexico for Oil Leasing
Today, Gulf-area and national environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior over lease sale 259, which would open 73.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas leasing.
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Feds cave to PG&E over license exemption for aging Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Ignoring longstanding precedents, statutes and regulations, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission today gave Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) the greenlight to operat…
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Friends of the Earth Condemns Proposed Greenwashing Legislation from Senators Whitehouse and Cassidy
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Captured Carbon Utilization Parity Act, which would boost the 45Q tax credit for “carbon utili…