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Filing suit to block approval of new nuclear reactor design
Friends of the Earth and a coalition of 11 other groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday, February 16 to reverse the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s misguided approval of risky new nuclear reactors at th…
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New investor brief exposes China National Petroleum Corporations lack of mechanism for addressing environmental and social risks
Friends of the Earth today released Crude beginnings, a new investor brief on the environmental and social risks associated with China National Petroleum Corporation, one of the world’s biggest oi…
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Crude beginnings: the environmental footprint of China National Petroleum Corporation around the world
The growing power of Chinese multinational corporations around the world, particularly in developing countries, is drawing a lot of attention. International companies complain that they are losing out…
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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…
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Finally! California gets a ship sewage discharge ban
Today, the U.S. EPA signed a federal rule that will finalize EPA’s decision to approve a California state proposal to ban all sewage discharges from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-goi…
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A new resource for fighting dirty energy giveaways
There’s a lot of uncertainty around exactly how much taxpayer money the government gives out to Big Oil, Big Coal and the rest of the dirty energy industry each year in subsidies. But we know one th…
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We’re Polluting. They’re Already Paying.
Ad supporting a strong U.S. role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing funding for adaptation.
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Building a better world at the Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
I had the privilege of participating in the Thematic Social Forum this past week in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Porto Alegre was where the very first World Social Forum took place back in 2001. The differen…
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Environmentalists threatened, murdered in El Salvador
Salvadoran environmentalists are fighting for a ban on destructive mining projects in the face of physical attacks at home, and legal attacks from abroad authorized by a U.S. trade agreement. Since 20…
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Bye-bye bunker fuel?
The Antarctic already has a ban in place on the use of bunker fuel by ships, the US and Canada are getting an Emission Control Area in August which could likely phase out bunker use in North American…