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Iowans: Oppose the rate hike for new nuclear reactors
Friends of the Earth and our activists have been fighting a bill in the Iowa state legislature that would raise customers’ electric rates to pay in advance for the construction of new nuclear re…
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Texas landowner calls out Obama on Keystone XL fast-tracking
Yesterday, President Obama shamelessly stood in front of piles of Keystone XL pipe near Cushing, Oklahoma, touting his ‘all of the above’ strategy to solving our energy woes and the climate crisis…
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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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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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TV ad challenges ‘dangerous’ nuclear rate hike bill in Iowa
DES MOINES, IOWA — A TV ad highlighting the risks of a bill that would allow MidAmerican Energy to raise electric rates for Iowa consumers in advance to pay for new nuclear reactors began airin…
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The “Rainforest Chernobyl”: Will U.S. Investment Treaty block justice for Amazonian People?
Who should pay to clean up what has been called the “Rainforest Chernobyl” in the Ecuadorian Amazon? Why are the people of the rainforest who suffered the most not represented directly before th…
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800,000+ strong against the Keystone XL pipeline
Wow. In 24 hours, the environmental movement and our progressive allies came together to send a huge, jarring wake-up call to senators wavering in the face of Big Oil’s threats and campaign coffers:…
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President’s budget has no solution for climate change
Yesterday President Obama fired the first shot in what is likely to be a series of budget skirmishes with House Republicans leading up to the November elections. Including controversial provisions suc…