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Report Reveals YouTube Sows Division, Violates Google’s Climate Disinformation Ad Policy
WASHINGTON, LONDON – A report released today from the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition found that Google has failed to systematically enforce its policy to demonetize YouTube videos that contain climate disinformation. In… Read More
Civil Rights Complaint Calls For Regulation of Dry Litter Poultry Industry In North Carolina
Friends of the Earth filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Civil Rights alleging that North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality’s (NCDEQ) fails to adequately regulate the dry litter poultry industry illegally discriminates against Native, Black and Latino communities. Read More
New records request targets delayed FOIA of Biden “energy whisperer”
Friends of the Earth filed a follow-up Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today targeting the State Department’s handling of records related to Amos Hochstein, a former LNG executive and President Biden’s Special Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security. Read More
Over 115 Local Officials Ask Congress to Reject Federal Preemption of Local Authority on Pesticides in the Farm Bill
Today more than 115 local officials sent a letter to Congress urging the rejection of any language in the 2023 Farm Bill that would limit local government authority to regulate toxic pesticides. Read More
Groundbreaking New York Climate Bill Passes Senate
A groundbreaking climate bill, The New York Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act (S.4859/A.5682), passed in the New York State Senate today as part of a package of environmental bills and will next head to the State Assembly. Read More
Lawsuit Targets U.S. Delay on Petition to Phase Out Public Lands Oil Drilling
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Interior Department today for failing to respond to a rulemaking petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on federal public lands. Read More
Analysis: Vacationers Generate 8 Times More Carbon on a Cruise Ship than on Land
Today Friends of the Earth released new data that shows cruise goers emit eight times the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per day than a land-based vacationer. Read More
Alaska public records request seeks role of Hochstein protege in $38.7 billion LNG boondoggle
Friends of the Earth has filed an open records request of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), the state entity developing the Alaska LNG Project -- a proposed $38.7 billion LNG project with a potential carbon footprint of 2.7 billion metric tons of CO2, ten times the climate pollution of the recently approved Willow Project. Read More
Groups Demand World Bank Shift Lending away from Industrial Animal Agriculture
WASHINGTON DC – Friends of the Earth and the global Stop Financing Factory Farming Campaign (S3F) announce a week of action targeting the World Bank Group (WBG) and its private sector arm the International Finance Corporation (IFC) during the banks’ in-person Spring 2023 meetings, held April 10 – 16 in… Read More
100+ Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Stop G7 Push for LNG Expansion
Over 100 climate and environmental justice groups sent a letter to the Biden Administration ahead of this week’s G7 climate ministers meeting demanding that U.S. officials reject attempts by fossil fuel industry lobbying and Japanese officials to increase public investments in LNG expansion. Read More