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Environmental Groups Sound Alarm on LNG Industry’s ‘Hydrogen-Ready’ Bait-and-Switch
We need the administration to condemn this greenwashing scam, not subsidize it. The rampant expansion of LNG exports is a climate disaster. Read More
Environmental Groups Submit Letter to Department of Energy on Preventing IRA-Boosted Tax Credit from Subsidizing Wood Pellet Mills
Burning wood for energy kneecaps our ability to address the climate crisis and embeds environmental injustice in communities. Read More
New Records Request Targets DOE’s LNG greenwashing scheme
Friends of the Earth has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request targeting the Department of Energy after reports that the agency is colluding with industry behind closed doors to develop an international standard for differentiated or so-called “clean” gas in order to boost LNG exports. Read More
Friends of the Earth Celebrates EPA’s Decision to Pull Dangerous EV Proposal
WASHINGTON – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard, which includes the removal of a proposal to expand the program by allowing electrification compliance credits (e-RINs) for charging electric vehicles via biomass energy. The RFS… Read More
State Department faces 2nd lawsuit over expedited Amos Hochstein FOIA request
Friends of the Earth has sued the U.S. Department of State for a second time over an expedited 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request targeting Biden energy official Amos Hochstein and potential fossil fuel influence over the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine. Read More
Freedom of Information Act Findings Reveal Covert Incinerator Lobby Blitz
WASHINGTON – FOIA documents uncovered by Friends of the Earth confirm that an incinerator industry campaign, led by waste management giant Covanta, is attempting to potentially co-opt billions of dollars in climate funding under the Renewable Fuel Standard. Incineration industry giants tout waste incineration energy as “sustainable” when… Read More
Groups Pressure Japan to Stop G7 Push to Finance Fossil Fuels and False Solutions; Urge Biden to Oppose Global LNG Expansion
Ahead of the G7 summit, climate and environmental organizations gathered at the Japanese embassy to pressure officials to stop the G7 push to finance Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) expansion. 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
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
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