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Annual Report 2009
Friends of the Earth’s annual report for 2009
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A Dangerous Distraction
Why offsets are a mistake the U.S. cannot afford to make
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Letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Opposition to any attempt to weaken the Renewable Fuel Standard’s definition of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels and to exclude emissions from indirect land-use change.
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Subprime Carbon?: Rethinking 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 ma…
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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…
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Letter to Members of Congress
Support the 2009 Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act.
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Letter to Secretary Steven Chu and Mr. Richard Frantz
Department of Energy must halt issuance of conditional loan guarantees to utilities pursuing AP 1000.
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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.
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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.
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A Boon to Bad Biofuels
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.