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Statement: Keystone XL pipeline and corporate conflicts of interest
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica joined Reps. Raul Grijalva and Jan Schakowsky to call for a Government Accountability Office review of the State Department’s process for approving environmental impact statements, like the one recently released for the Keystone XL pipeline. This was due to… Read More
President Obama builds nuclear legacy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a press conference today, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz announced finalized government support for constructing the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in almost forty years. The $3.46 billion loan guarantee to Georgia Power and the $3.05 billion loan guarantee to Oglethorpe Power Company will enable the… Read More
Keystone XL report contractor tied to TransCanada: Evidence mounts in ongoing conflict of interest inquiry
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth submitted evidence to the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General to support the ongoing inquiry into conflicts of interest and mismanagement in the environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The groups request that the… Read More
More than a half million people demand Home Depot and Lowes stop selling bee-killing pesticides
Thousands participate in bee swarm actions across the country in the week of Valentine’s Day WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, over 27,000 people coast-to-coast are swarming Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) stores to support the bees that pollinate our flowers for Valentine’s Day. In a coalition effort called the Bee Week… Read More
Keystone XL: What did API know and when? Groups FOIA State Department for communication with Big Oil, Canadian government
Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club and Oil Change International have filed a FOIA request to the State Department to unearth insider communications with the Canadian government and oil industry in the weeks leading up to the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement. As the American public awaited… Read More
Friends of the Earth responds to the Keystone XL Environmental Impact Statement
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the State Department will release its Environmental Impact Statement for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Below is a statement from Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica: “The State Department’s environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline is a farce. Since the beginning of the assessment,… Read More
Friends of the Earth immediately available for Keystone XL EIS comment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Environmental groups expect that the State Department will issue an Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Pipeline today, January 31. Under the National Environmental Policy Act, this analysis is required to reflect all environmental effects resultant of the completion of this pipeline, which will transport tar sands… Read More
Vogtle nuclear loan guarantee puts taxpayers at risk
*This press release was revised for accuracy on January 31, 2014 at 12:30 p.m.* WASHINGTON, D.C. – A day after President Obama focused on his troubling “all of the above” energy plan in the State of the Union Address, Reuters reports that Georgia Power has delivered documents to finalize… Read More
Friends of the Earth International deplores NSA bugging of climate negotiations
WASHINGTON D.C. – Commenting on the news that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on climate negotiators at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit1, Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International Climate Justice and Energy coordinator said: Read More
All of the above underachieves, under-delivers and overshadows harmful climate and trade policies in State of the Union
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth was disappointed by President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, in which the president reiterated his “all of the above” energy policy and continued to support environmentally destructive trade deals, such as the Trans Pacific Partnership. Friends of the Earth President… Read More