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U.S.-China agreement will not fix the climate

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the announcement of a negotiated deal between the United States and China on greenhouse gas reductions, Friends of the Earth U.S. President Erich Pica made the following statement: While the U.S.-China Announcement on climate change creates important political momentum internationally, it falls significantly short… Read More

Good News: Trans Pacific trade deal continues to stall

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at the start of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, countries negotiating the TransPacific Partnership failed to produce even a “framework agreement” on the TPP trade agreement. The APEC meeting was supposed to be the latest deadline for completing the TPP deal. Erich Pica, president of Friends… Read More

Despite worse-than-coal emissions, Obama administration finds yet another natural gas export facility environmentally insignificant

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s draft environmental impact statement on the Jordan Cove Energy Project’s proposed liquefied natural gas export plant in Coos Bay, Oregon, found that any potential environmental impacts would become insignificant if mitigation measures were implemented. This analysis moves yet another terminal for… Read More

Republican-controlled congress will not make passing Fast Track easier

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During his post-election news conference, President Obama said that he expects to cooperate with congressional Republicans on his trade agenda: a sentiment echoed by future Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. Passing Fast Track trade promotion legislation as their first post-election act could hasten congressional approval of the… Read More

Midterm election results: Greatest Congress the Kochs ever bought

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the election votes tallied to reveal a Republican Senate majority, many progressive groups are bracing for an assault on environmental protections, clean air and water, and a deepening social divide in the nation. Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth, issued the following response to… Read More

Friends of the Earth, citing IPCC report, calls for a new era of renewable energy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final report of its Fifth Assessment Report, a synthesis of three previous IPCC reports. The synthesis report summarizes findings by thousands of scientists from around the world and delineates the extent to which human-caused climate change is gravely… Read More

Climate activists march 3,000 miles to demand action on climate

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dozens of climate activists participating in the Great March for Climate Action from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., arrived today at the White House, having walked over 3,000 miles. Their arrival kicks off a “Beyond Extreme Energy” week of actions in the nation’s capital to call… Read More

Bloated oil profits and corporate welfare: a trick to taxpayers, a treat to polluters

WASHINGTON, D.C. —This morning, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) reported its third quarter earnings for 2014 — an eye-popping $8.07 billion. Yet, ExxonMobil paid an effective tax rate of only 10.2 percent on its U.S. income in 2013, and likely received a significant share of the $10.5 billion in federal… Read More

Energy East Pipeline: Concerned Citizens in U.S. and Canada Pledge to Block TransCanadas Latest Tar Sands Scheme

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, Canadian oil giant TransCanada filed an official application with the Canadian National Energy Board for permits to build its proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline. Concerned North Americans have already committed to challenging the project on both sides of the U.S. – Canada border. If approved,… Read More

Gardeners tell Lowes: Dont be a little shop of horrors for bees

More than a million people ask Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, more than 30,000 people across the U.S. and Canada will swarm Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) stores to ask the retailer to not be a “little shop of horrors” for bees and to take bee-killing pesticides off… Read More