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Subprime carbon?: Re-thinking the world’s largest new derivatives market

This report is one of the first critical analyses to characterize carbon trading as a massive new derivatives market and . It finds that existing financial regulations, as well as those proposed in major cap-and-trade bills, would be inadequate and could

Getting a Grip on Cruise Ship Pollution

Authored by cruise industry expert, Ross Klein, this report looks at all aspects of the cruise industry -- from its pollution streams to its history of environmental violations to the modest number of environmental laws that govern it -- and recommends wi

Letter to members of Congress

Support the 2009 Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act.

Letter to Secretary Steven Chu and Mr. Richard Frantz

Department of Energy must halt issuance of conditional loan guarantees to utilities pursuing AP 1000.

Manufactured nanomaterials and sunscreens: Top reasons for precaution

Nanomaterials are already being used (unlabelled) in hundreds of consumer products including sunscreens and cosmetics. This report explains why this is reason for concern.

Letter to Rep. Collin Peterson, Rep. Edward Markey, and Rep. Henry Waxman

Letter regarding our opposition to H.R. 2409, and any other attempt to undermine the accounting of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with biofuels.

A Boon to Bad Biofuels: Federal tax credits and mandates underwrite environmental damage at taxpayer expense

This evaluation by Doug Koplow of EarthTrack for Friends of the Earth estimates the costs of the Renewable Fuel Standard and the various biofuel tax credits.

Letter to Rep. Charles Rangel

Urging him to not reauthorize the Alternative Fuel Tax Credit (26 U.S.C. § 6426(d)) and the Alternative Fuel Mixture Tax Credit (26 U.S.C. § 6426(e)).

Letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

Re: Joint opposition to petition from Growth Energy to increase the allowable ethanol content of gasoline to 15 volume percent.

Letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

Re: Joint opposition to petition from Growth Energy to increase the allowable ethanol content of gasoline to 15 volume percent.