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Petition Seeks Limits on Greenhouse Gas, Black Carbon Pollution from Locomotives
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and the International Center for Technology Assessment today filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc…
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Campaign to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline Has Big Oil on the Defensive
When President Obama returned home to Chicago on August 4 and 5 to celebrate his birthday and fundraise, he was greeted by protestors concerne…
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Memorandum for journalists covering extreme weather in summer 2010 and links to climate change
This summer has seen extreme weather and climate events with devastating impacts across the globe. Prolonged heat in Russia and flooding in Pakistan have harmed millions of people. A chunk of ic…
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Pipeline Protestors Greet Obama in Chicago
CHICAGO—Activists who oppose a controversial pipeline that would bring the world’s dirtiest oil to the U.S. demonstrated outside of a fundraising event attended by President Obama here today…
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World Bank Inspection Panel Given Green Light to Proceed with Full Investigation into South African Coal Loan
Washington, D.C.—Last week, the World Bank’s independent grievance mechanism, the Inspection Panel, was authorized to conduct a full investigation into alleged policy…
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Canadian Pipeline Firm Calls Off Effort to Skirt Safety Standards
Washington, D.C. – As reported by Senator Jon Tester, TransCanada, the Canadian firm seeking approval from the Obama administration to build a massive new tar sands oil pipeline into the Un…
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Kalamazoo Spill Underscores Dangers of Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipeline from Canada to Gulf Coast
Washington, D.C. — This week, a pipeline carrying oil from Canada into the U.S. ruptured, spilling more than a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Crews are attem…
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Senate Spill Bill Fails to Address Root Causes of Gulf Oil Tragedy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this afternoon unveiled a draft outline of a pared-down oil spill bill after officially abandoning a broader attempt to address our…
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Congress Shortchanges Clean Transportation Alternatives, Perpetuates U.S. Addiction to Oil
Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved transportation funding legislation that provides insufficient funding for Amtrak and high speed rail (HSR) projects. The bill provides $1.96…
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Capitol Hill Demonstration Marks Three-Month Anniversary of BP Oil Disaster
Washington, D.C.-A broad coalition of public interest, faith, and environmental groups-joined by Gulf Coast residents directly impacted by the Gulf oil spill-marked today’s…