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Big Oil’s “Dear Trump” Wishlist
This government by the ultra-wealthy is already putting its collective thumb on the scale, bolstering the oil and gas industry’s robust and longstanding subsidies
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Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approvals for New Oil, Gas Drilling on California Public Lands
Today’s filing is part of a long series of lawsuits against the BLM for greenlighting more oil and gas activity in California’s Kern County.
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North Dakota Federal Judge Upends Key Biden-era NEPA Regulations
Today’s federal court decision is a setback for our country’s magna carta of environmental laws, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and upends important reforms made to environmental (“phas…
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Environmentalists Denounce Proposed Geoengineering Project in Gulf of Maine
Friends of the Earth US and the Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance publicly oppose the re-proposed LOC-NESS experiment.
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Biden Administration’s Move to Expand Data Centers for AI Will Exacerbate the Climate Crisis and Hurt Consumers
It was unwise for President Biden to fast-track data centers on federal lands as one of his final acts as president.
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Trump’s 14 New LNG Export Facilities Will Cause U.S. Energy Bills to Rise, Emissions to Skyrocket
President-elect Donald Trump may be on the verge of approving exports of liquified methane from 14 planned export facilities, which have been striking deals to sell their output to gas buyers worldwid…
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Friends of the Earth Voluntarily Dismisses Litigation over Billion Dollar Diablo Canyon Grant After PG&E and California Rapidly Moot the Case
Friends of the Earth maintains that DOE has violated federal law, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), through its $1.1 billion award to Diablo Canyon as part of the agency’s U.S…
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Biden Administration Finalizes Rule for Clean Electricity, But Threats Remain
This rule is an important step towards the Biden Administration’s commitments to address power sector emissions.
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DOE’s Long-Awaited LNG Export Analysis Makes Clear Case for Biden to Reject Pending Permits
The Biden Administration’s DOE released its long-awaited, critical analysis of the impacts of liquified natural gas (LNG) exports, which shows clear evidence of LNG’s climate, economic, national s…
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Environmental Groups Demand Transparency over Geoengineering Experiments
The Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972 requires that all activities that attempt to produce “artificial changes in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere” must file publi…