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Confirm Hilda Solis for Labor Secretary
For Immediate Release Contact: Nick Berning: (202) 222-0748 Friends of the Earth Urges Senate to Confirm Hilda Solis WASHINGTON, D.C.Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder today urged senators to confirm Representative Hilda Solis as the next Secretary of the Department of Labor. His statement follows: Read More
Obamas Call for Green Jobs Recovery Applauded
For Immediate Release Contact: Nick Berning: (202) 222-0748 In speech today, Obama pledges to create jobs by doubling alternative energy production, modernizing buildings and developing whole new approach to meeting challenges WASHINGTON, D.C.Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder had the following response to a speech today by President-elect Barack Obama about his economic recovery package: Read More
Coal Ash Disaster Underscores Need to End Coal Use
For Immediate Release Contact: Nick Berning: (202) 222-0748 After massive Tennessee coal ash spill, Friends of the Earth mobilizes activists to push for moratorium on new coal plants, phase-out of old ones Read More
EPA Report Details Cruise Ship Pollution
For Immediate Release For more information contact: Marcie Keever: (415) 544-0790, ext. 23 Nick Berning: (202) 222-0748 EPA Responds to Friends of the Earth Lawsuit With Report Finding That Even Treated Cruise Ship Discharges Are Highly Polluted Read More
Cruise Ships Allowed to Dump Pollution a Mile from U.S. Shores
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Giant Loophole in Forest Plans
For Immediate Release POZNAN, POLAND -- A loophole in proposed schemes to tackle deforestation was exposed at the UN climate talks today. Friends of the Earth International has called on Governments to reject current plans for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries (REDD) that would allow countries to buy up forests as a way of avoiding cutting their own greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental federation has been campaigning to protect forests and forest-dependent people for three decades. Read More