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Rep. Culberson, Top House Recipient of BP Cash, Criticized for Catering to Big Oil Interests
Washington, D.C. -- As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to hemorrhage daily into the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth last week launched a campaign to pressure members of Congress, including Representative John Culberson (R-Texas), to donate the cash they’ve received from BP and other oil companies to Gulf Coast recovery efforts. Read More
Sen. McConnell Named to BP Ten, Urged to Give Up Tainted Oil Cash
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to hemorrhage daily into the Gulf of Mexico, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has earned oily marks from the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth as one of the Senate’s top recipients of campaign cash from BP over the past few years. Read More
Judge Blocks Temporary Deepwater Drilling Moratorium
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth’s president, Erich Pica, had the following response to a federal judge’s injunction blocking President Obama’s six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects. Read More
Energy Department Pressed to Release Records re Nuclear Bailout
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Friday, Southern Company announced it has accepted a preemptive bailout by the Department of Energy for the construction of nuclear reactors in Georgia. Friends of the Earth responded today by criticizing the bailout and filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act to force the Energy Department to make the terms of the bailout agreement public. Read More
Campaign Launched to Force ‘BP Ten’ and Others in Congress to Give Up Dirty Oil Cash
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, was set to testify about the devastating oil disaster his firm caused in the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth launched a campaign to pressure members of Congress to unload the cash they’ve received from BP and other oil companies. Read More
Billions of New Nuke Giveaways in Kerry-Lieberman Bill Exposed
Washington, D.C. -- The nuclear industry could end up facing no risk under massive tax break subsidies in the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill, according to an important new analysis conducted for Friends of the Earth by the research organization Earth Track. Read More
EPA’s Failure to Address Ship, Aircraft and Non-Road Engine Pollution Challenged
Washington, D.C. – A day after the US Senate voted to uphold the US Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging EPA’s failure to address such pollution from ocean-going ships, aircraft and nonroad vehicles and engines used in industrial operations. Read More
Public Warned About Nanosunscreen Risks
Washington, D.C.—The environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth announced today that it has launched a summer advertising and public education campaign intended to alert the public to the risks posed by nanosunscreens. Read More
On President Obama’s Oval Office Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth’s president, Erich Pica, had the following response to President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office this evening. Read More
Attack on Clean Air Act Fails in Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Senate voted by a margin of 47 to 53 today to reject a resolution sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that sought to roll back the Clean Air Act’s protections against pollution that destabilizes our climate. Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following response Read More