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Cruise lines get an F for refusing to share environmental data
The cruise industry has received mixed marks over the years for its environmental practices. But this year, every cruise line got a failing grade for transparency from an environmental group. Friends…
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Heres What Happens To Sewage On Cruise Lines
Cruise ships released over one billion gallons of sewage into the ocean in 2014, according to a new report from Friends of the Earth. The analysis, which worked off of federal data, did show that some…
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“F” for Transparency: Cruise Lines Refuse to Release Environmental Practices
The Friends of the Earth (FOE) non-profit organization just released its “Cruise Ship Report Card” for 2014. In a press release, the FOE states that “cruise ships dumped more than a…
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Indonesias new president takes key step in protecting rain forests from palm oil plantations
In our campaign to halt the expansion of palm oil plantations, Friends of the Earth U.S. works closely with our partners at Walhi/Friends of the Earth Indonesia, and we are excited to announce that Wa…
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Stop Fast Track: Reject Pacific & Atlantic trade deals
The activists and campaigners of Friends of the Earth are having considerable success this year in beating back Fast Track trade promotion legislation in Congress. The bill would grant President Obama…
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John Kerry Makes Plea For Climate Deal in Lima
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea on Thursday for all nations to work for an ambitious U.N. deal next year to fight climate change, saying time was running out to reverse a c…
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Large-scale sustainable beef is still an empty promise
Earlier this month, an international coalition of beef-producing megacorporations put forth a document they say will guide their industry towards raising more sustainable beef. But though the language…
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Going out, but going green?
Chinese banks are the largest lenders to development projects in the world. As Chinese banks increasingly invest in development projects overseas, will they also invest in environmental and soci…
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Greens sue BLM seeking to force environmental review of coal leasing
Friends of the Earth and the Western Organization of Resource Councils, with backing from philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will sue the Bureau of Land Management today to force the…
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Microsoft co-founder sues feds over coal lease program
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen is suing the federal government over the environmental impacts of its coal-leasing program. Allen said Tuesday that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hasn’t p…