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Gain?Carbon’s Crisis

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DESPITE THE PATHETIC andtragic breakdown of basicgovernance at the federallevel under the Bush adminis-tration, there have been raysof hope around the world.Internationally, nations likeGermany, Denmark and Spainhave made incredible strideswith renewable energy –standing in dramatic contrastto the stodgy troglodyte men-tality of many U.S. utilitiesthat have been pushing new coaland nuclear power plants. Even com-panies like Duke Energy that cloakthemselves in green are going aheadwith new coal and nuclear powerplants. Luckily in that case, Friends ofthe Earth intervened with the SouthCarolina Public Service Commissionagainst Duke Power’s proposed newnuclear reactors.

In addition to investing in renew-able energy, countries like Spainhave expanded rail service. Earlierthis year, I rode the superb Spanishhigh-speed trains that make the300-mile trip from Barcelona toMadrid in less than three hourswhile providing the smoothest trainride my family and I have ever expe-rienced. Local train service is alsofast, clean and modern – puttingAmerica’s rail passenger service toshame. Spain intends to build10,000 new miles of high speed rail.In contrast, Bush has strangled fund-ing for Amtrak and refused toenforce Amtrak’s legal priority overfreight trains on shared tracks,increasing passenger delays andlowering service quality at the verytime more people are turning to therails to avoid high gasoline prices.

Last March Spain got about 30 per-cent of its electricity from wind power

– shattering the myth perpetrated bysome utilities that because windblows intermittently it can only sup-ply less than five percent of the elec-tricity for a grid. Imagine, a countryjust one-fifteenth the size of ourlower 48 states took wind power seri-ously and became the number twocountry in the world behind Germanyin wind electricity generation.

Another success story, Denmark, acountry of five million people, pro-vided government support to thewind energy company Vestas that inturn became the number one pro-ducer of wind turbines with numer-ous worldwide exports.

But here at home, the sorry Bushadministration, in cooperation withthe Republican leadership in theSenate, has allowed wind energy taxcredits to expire three times in thepast eight years. Fortunately a num-ber of states are moving into actionindependently of federal support.Texas has surpassed California asthe number one wind producingstate and with Texas in motion theU.S. – which is the Saudi Arabia ofwind – finally eclipsed Spain in windelectricity generation.

If environmentally-minded organ-izations and individuals facilitateinvestment in the amazing renew-

able energy options and end-use efficiency ideas availablewe can break free from thegrip of the Stone Age energycompanies that dominate U.S.decision making and bringpolluting projects that harmlife on earth to an end.

The Republican leadershipin the House and Senateagain and again throughout2008 has blocked progresstoward a clean energy econo-

my. They have viciously attackedSpeaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to cutenergy waste in the Capitol and toreduce the carbon footprint of theCongress. Four times during this110th Congress the House has passedlegislation to remove some of thetax code handouts to big oil, only tohave the measures killed byRepublican leader SenatorMcConnell and his colleagues. It’sthis sort of tug-of-war that impedesmuch-needed action and puts theplanet at risk.

The next president will be respon-sible for setting right the policiesthat have put us in an environmen-tal, social and financial straight jack-et. This year has witnessed a cascad-ing series of financial crises, broughton by the reckless deregulatoryagenda. Friends of the Earth hascalled for comprehensive reform ofthe financial system as to ensureenvironmentally responsible invest-ments in the future and closure oftax loop holes, accompanied byrequirements for government over-sight and corporate accountability.

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A Year in Review

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THANKS TO FRIENDS OF THE EARTHinternational finance campaign coor-dinator Karen Orenstein, presidentBrent Blackwelder – who testifiedbefore the House of Representativesthis summer – and others, Congressrejected the Bush administration’srequest for a $400 million blank checkto subsidize the World Bank’s newlyestablished climate funds. The WorldBank is the largest multilateral funderof fossil fuel projects in the world, so

it’s no surprise that the Bank’s planendorses so-called “clean” coal.Additionally, rather than holdingindustrialized countries accountablefor their greenhouse gas emissions,the funds from this undemocraticinstitution push loans on developingnations to pay for adapting to theimpacts of global warming, and divertmoney and political energy away frominternational climate negotiationsunder the United Nations.

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH is releasingan update to the 2007 Time to GoGreen report on Chinese banks.Chinese banks are playing anincreasingly important role infinancing large infrastructure andnatural resource projects through-out the world, often without thesocial and environmental standardsnecessary to protect local communi-ties and ecosystems. The new reportoverviews efforts to green Chinese

finance since the Chinesegovernment released new envi-ronmental regulations for financialinstitutions, including limitingfinancing to energy-intensive andpolluting industries. It also high-lights environmentally- and socially-sensitive projects Chinese banks arefinancing around the world rightnow. You can find it online athttp://www.foe.org/pdf/Chinese_Bank_Report_2008.pdf.

IN JANUARY 2008, the FDA approvedcloned cows, pigs and goats for entryinto the U.S. human food supply, indefiance of two congressionalrequests to wait for more evaluationand more than 150,000 public com-ments opposing the approval. Inresponse, Friends of the Earth haslaunched a consumer campaign ask-ing grocers not to stock and sell prod-ucts made from cloned animals andtheir offspring. In just a few months,

we got more than 9,000 people tosign a petition that we sent, alongwith letters, to 50 major grocers inthe U.S. asking for their policy on sell-ing food from cloned animals. So faronly Harris Teeter, PCC NaturalMarkets, SUPERVALU and Albertsonshave responded – all say they do notsell cloned animal products. Look fora list of clone-free stores and foodcompanies coming soon!

Victory! World Bank Can’t Capitalize on Climate

China’s Banks Going Green

Fighting Cloned Food

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Spotlight on Our Friends . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Matching Gifts. . . . . . . . 5

Carbon 202 . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Deadly Doping. . . . . . . . 9

High Gas Prices: Pain or Gain? . . . . . . . . 10

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An Easy Way to GiveNow to Ensure the Planet’s Future! . . . . . . 14

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By Karen Orenstein

For well over a decade, Friends ofthe Earth Japan has played a lead-ing role in the country’s fightagainst climate change. They carriedthis torch well during the annualGroup of Eight (G8) Summit, atwhich heads of state of eight majorindustrialized countries – includingthe U.S. – met in Hokkaido, Japan, inearly July to discuss pressing globalmatters, including climate change.With only 13.5 percent of the world’spopulation, G8 countries are histori-cally responsible for over 62 percentof the greenhouse gases in theatmosphere, while continuing toemit some 39 percent of today’sglobal warming pollution.

Throughout the G8 Summit, theJapanese government came underheavy criticism for its repression ofG8 protesters. The Summit itselfwas entirely isolated and underintense security. Several hours’ drivefrom the summit, activists gatheredat the 2008 People’s Summit inHokkaido, an alternative summitcoordinated by a coalition ofJapanese NGOs. Friends of the EarthJapan organized a panel and discus-sion on “Climate Injustice and theResponsibilities of the G8,” in addi-

tion to a similarly-themed pressconference. Japanese national tele-vision covered the well-attendedpanel. Friends of the Earth Japaninvited and hosted Friends of theEarth U.S. international team stafferKaren Orenstein for G8 activities.

Friends of the Earth Japan, withFriends of the Earth International,called on G8 and other industrial-ized countries to equitably addressthe climate crisis at the heavily-guarded official International MediaCenter, where Friends of the Earthand other NGOs provided commen-

tary on the G8 Summit. Friends ofthe Earth urged leaders of industri-alized countries to address climateinjustice by:• cutting their greenhouse gas

emissions by at least 40 percentbelow 1990 levels by 2020;

• stopping the development, pro-duction and international trade inbiofuels from large-scale, mono-culture plantations and declaringa moratorium on targets for bio-fuels in the transportation sector;

• providing financing – under theauthority of the United Nations

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Karen Orenstein, far left, participates in a panel on climate justice organized by Our World is Notfor Sale in Japan

Beyond climate change, Friends of the Earth Japan campaigns on multiple other pressing matters, including publicfinance and the environment. Among other projects, Friends of the Earth Japan is holding the Japan Bank forInternational Cooperation to account for its financing of the controversial Sakhalin II oil and gas project in theRussian Far East, which in particular threatens the critically endangered Western Gray Whale with extinction.Friends of the Earth Japan has been working for conservation and sustainable development in the Russian Far Eastfor more than a decade and has even published the comprehensive book, The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide forConservation and Development. They are further engaged in forest protection initiatives within and outside ofJapan, as well as addressing desertification, as exemplified by Friends of the Earth Japan’s Greening the DesertProject in China.

Friends of the Earth Japan Holds G8’s Feet tothe Fire on Climate Change

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MANY EMPLOYERS will match chari-table donations made by employeesas a way of giving back to the com-munity. Businesses of all types andsizes have programs, so check withyour employer to see whether yourcompany can make your gift gotwice as far to protect the environ-ment!

To make a matching gift, just askfor an application from your employ-er and follow their instructions onhow to request the match. It’s thateasy to get the satisfaction of know-ing that your hard-earned dollarswill have twice the impact. If youremployer doesn’t have a program,encourage them to start one!

You Stand Up for the Environment, So WhyNot Ask Your Employer to Help the Planet Too!

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climate convention – fordeveloping countries to tack-le global warming, in partdue to the climate debtwealthy nations owe develop-ing countries; and

• reducing the estimated 20percent of global warmingcaused by forest loss in anequitable manner that pro-tects the rights of forest-dependent peoples andaddresses the over-consump-tion of forest products andcommercial agriculture byindustrialized countries, aprimary driver of deforesta-tion in developing countries.

As expected, the G8 failedabysmally to address the cli-mate crisis. The same can besaid of the G8’s response to theglobal food crisis.

G8 leaders declared their supportfor newly established World Bankclimate funds. Friends of the EarthU.S. has vigorously opposed thesewidely-criticized funds, which willsupposedly be used to finance cleantechnology and help communitiesin developing countries adapt to theimpacts of climate change. However,

the World Bank is both the planet’slargest multilateral funder of fossilfuel projects and an undemocraticinstitution with a poor environmen-

tal track record. Its new climatefunds include coal as a purport-ed “clean” technology, pushloans on developing nations topay for adjusting to the impactsof global warming caused byindustrialized countries, andundermine international cli-mate negotiations under theUnited Nations. Back inWashington, DC, members ofCongress concerned about glob-al warming refused to go alongwith the Bush administration’srequest for a $400 million blankcheck for the World Bank’s cli-mate funds.

As the United Nations’ majorannual climate change confer-ence in Poland approaches inDecember, Friends of the EarthJapan, together with Friends ofthe Earth International andFriends of the Earth U.S., will

continue to strive toward a just andequitable resolution to the world’sclimate crisis.

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Activists protest against G8 concessions for GMOs and biofuels.

For global, multilingual coverage of international events and activities,check out Real World Radio, an alternative news source sponsored byFriends of the Earth International: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/rmr/?q=en.

Carbon 202:

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By Michelle Chan and Elizabeth Bast

In the last Friends of the Earth news-magazine, our ‘Carbon 101’ article gavesome background on carbon trading –what it is and how it’s supposed towork. Following on the heels of thatarticle, we thought we would dig a lit-tle deeper into some of the potentialpitfalls of carbon markets – whatmight happen when large amounts of“carbon credits” begin to be traded.

Carbon trading has been heraldedas an efficient and cost-effectivemethod of reducing global warmingpollution by harnessing the incen-tives and innovation of the markets.While it’s critical to put a price oncarbon, can we trust the system thatbrought us the Enron accountingscandal, the subprime mortgagemeltdown and commodities specula-tion to save us from global warming?

Measuring and VerifyingCarbon Offset Credits: A Rigorous TaskBuying and selling carbon credits on amarket sets a price for carbon, muchlike prices are set for corn, soy or othergoods. Unlike corn or soy though,which are assets you can physicallypossess, carbon credits are intangible.Carbon offset credits are essentiallypromises on paper representing anamount of carbon that would be

released into the atmosphere underbusiness-as-usual practices. Reducing,avoiding or sequestering these carbonemissions creates offsets credits.

Some offset credits are meaning-ful, and do indeed represent adecrease in the amount of carbonpollution we are emitting. For exam-ple, retrofitting an industrial plant tobe more energy efficient or replacingan aging coal-fired power plant withwind power creates reductions inGHG emissions that can be measuredwith relative accuracy and verified.

However not all offset projectsclearly lead to emission reductions.Some of the most visible scandals todate have revolved around:• forest-related carbon reduction

schemes, where trees have beenplanted to store carbon, only to diea few years later;

• construction of large, environmen-tally destructive dams, wherebuilders who were going to con-

struct the dams anyway claimed“new” emissions reductions; and

• HFC (a chemical byproduct ofrefrigerant production) destruc-tion projects, where factories pur-posely created these very potentgreenhouse gas chemicals just sothey could destroy them and makemoney off of the credits.

Who measures the emissions reduc-tions – and how – are criticallyimportant questions, especially whenit comes to the carbon offset creditsthat consumers might buy to com-pensate for their travel or other per-sonal emissions. When it comes tointernational offset projects – thosecreated outside the U.S. with theintent of offsetting emissions pro-duced within the U.S. – there is noglobal standard to ensure that emis-sions reductions are measured andverified in a uniform manner.Different actors work under a varietyof regulatory structures on behalf ofdifferent interests. When carbon off-set projects are measured and veri-fied in wildly varied ways, distin-guishing between fake and real car-bon reductions is a serious challenge.

There are clearly a number ofchallenges just in generating carbonoffset credits. In particular, deter-mining that offsets are meaningful –that is, ensuring that real carbon

The Current Credit Crisis: Lessons for Carbon Finance?

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“Climate change is thegreatest and widestranging marketfailure ever seen.”

– Sir Nicholas Stern, Former Head of the UKGovernment Economic Service and Adviserto the UK Government on the economics ofclimate change and development

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reductions occur and that we areactually getting closer to saving theplanet from global warming – is abig issue. But another whole host ofproblems arise once large numbersof carbon offsets begin to be traded.

Carbon Credits in theMarket: Need For StrongRegulation A smooth-functioning carbon mar-ket is dependent on the capacity andgood faith of a whole host of partici-pants – analysts, verifiers, auditorsand consultants. The greatest mar-ket fiascos of recent history, theEnron accounting scandal and thesubprime mortgage crises, havebeen marked by a spectacular failureof auditors, credit ratings agencies,and other parties to create a func-tioning market.

The Enron accounting scandalcame about because “independent”checks and balances, which weresupposed to ensure that the compa-ny was acting appropriately, failed.Shortly after the energy firm filed forbankruptcy in 2001 it became clearthat Enron had been systematicallyhiding its true financial status. Thisdeception was facilitated by a num-ber of clear conflicts of interest. Forexample, investment banks that pro-vided “objective” stock advice toinvestors were also earning fees onselling that stock. Furthermore, reg-ulators were understaffed and veri-fiers were asleep at the switch.

The subprime mortgage crisis hasalso emerged from a failure of mar-ket checks and balances. Initially,banks offered mortgages to peoplewho couldn’t really afford the homesthey were buying – in effect making

loans that were not likely to be paidback. Banks then bundled thesemortgages together into packagesthat were then bought, re-bundledand re-sold many times over. Thiscreated bundles of promised rev-enues that were increasingly diffi-cult to track. When it became clearthat a significant portion of theloans were bad, the whole systembegan to unravel, affecting everyonein the banking and investment sys-tem connected to these bundledmortgages, including averageAmericans with savings accountsand retirement savings, and turninga sub-prime mortgage problem intoa system-wide credit crisis.

The carbon markets are beingbuilt on the same faulty system thatgave us Enron and the subprimemortgage crisis. What’s more, someanalysts predict that the carbon trad-ing markets could become thebiggest financial markets in theworld. If this comes to pass, will thoseregulating the market be up to task?

Potential Pitfalls ofCarbon Markets: • Weak verification leads to inaccu-

rate pricing of carbon credits.“Innovative” financial engineeringcharacterized both the credit crisisand the Enron crisis. In both situa-tions, complex financial instru-ments were created that made itvery difficult to determine theactual value of assets. In the car-bon markets, weak verification sys-tems, combined with the bundling

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Carbon 101: REVIEWThere are two kinds of carbon credits:

Allowance credits are government-allocated permits given or sold inlimited quantities to regulated industries that permit the holder to emita certain amount of greenhouse gases, or GHGs. Polluters that emitmore than they are allowed must buy more credits to match their actualGHG emission levels.

Offset credits represent greenhouse gas reductions that are made by anon-regulated entity – a sector or body that is not required by the gov-ernment to limit GHG emissions. These credits can then be bought bypolluters trying to meet their obligations under the allowance creditsystem. They are also the same type of credits that individuals can buyvoluntarily to compensate for the GHG emissions they create from, forexample, their travel.

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and re-bundling of carbon assets,may create similar problems.Markets already discount low-value, poorly-verified carbon cred-its called “junk carbon,” but dis-covering carbon credits’ true valueis difficult when junk assets arebundled with good ones and soldto unwitting buyers.

• Pushing carbon markets too fastleads to speculation. Once on themarket, the price of carbon can begamed and speculated upon.Proponents of carbon marketsargue that bigger marketsincrease the price of carbon cred-its, thus spurring more green-house gas reduction efforts. Therush of capital flooding into car-bon markets is in part due to thefact that carbon offsets are mar-keted as a way for individuals andfinanciers to help save the world –while benefiting many who standto make money along the way(project developers, brokers andspeculators especially). But with somuch capital flooding the carbonmarkets, the risk of a speculativebubble developing increases.When carbon prices collapse, thenit becomes cheaper for pollutingcompanies to simply buy morecarbon credits rather than makeemissions reductions themselves.

• Unscrupulous intermediariespush bad projects. The subprimecrisis was exacerbated by the pro-liferation of mortgage brokers andother middlemen who providedquestionable, if not unscrupulous,services. Similarly, in the carbonfinance markets (particularlyunregulated or voluntary mar-kets), unscrupulous intermediariesmay engage in fraud, for exampleby offering offset projects thatsimply do not exist, that wouldhave been done anyway, or that

have already been sold to anotherbuyer.

• Independent third parties fail toenforce good practices. In the car-bon trading market, where creditsmay vary wildly in price (anywherefrom $2 - $30 per ton of carbondioxide equivalent), scandals havealready emerged. But notably, it hasbeen the media, rather than thirdparty verifiers, that has exposed off-set projects that have failed todeliver the promised results.

• No one is policing the policeman.Currently there is no standardizedsystem for ensuring the qualityand integrity of emissions verifica-tion firms, particularly those whoverify carbon credits sold to indi-viduals. This means that fly-by-night outfits, who get paid by proj-ect developers to verify how manyemissions were reduced by a proj-ect, may be too generous in “verify-ing” that a project has resulted inreal emissions reductions. Thisthreatens not only carbon assetquality, putting buyers at risk, butit also threatens the credibility ofthe entire system of carbon credits.

• Auditing and consulting generateconflicts of interest. Although the

Enron scandal prompted a separa-tion between audit and manage-ment consulting functions inmany of the large accountingfirms, the carbon finance field hasnot yet followed suit. In the carbonfinance field, some consultingfirms offer consulting and projectdevelopment services, and alsoverify emissions – creating apotential conflict of interest.

• Accounting rules remain inade-quate. While the Enron scandalencouraged a fresh look at theadequacy of accounting rules andaccounting standards-setting bod-ies, international accounting stan-dards bodies so far have not prom-ulgated clear accounting rules toguide companies in presentingcarbon assets and liabilities.

Carbon Trading: Solutionto the Climate Crisis?In Washington, DC, carbon trading isbeing touted as the centerpiece tosolving the climate crisis. Howevercarbon trading actually might not bean effective solution to achievinggreenhouse gas reductions, especial-ly compared with other strategies,such as introducing aggressive newenergy efficiency requirements,investing in public transit and smartgrowth, and instituting carbon fees.By putting all our eggs into one bas-ket, we’re playing a dangerous gamewith the fate of the planet.

If we are to meet the greatestchallenge of our time, we need realaction and real solutions. While car-bon trading may have some limitedrole to play, do we really want to relyon it as the backbone of internation-al efforts to stop climate change? Inshort, if climate change is indeed thegreatest market failure ever, can wereally rely on markets to solve it?

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E M E R G I N G T E C H N O L O G I E S �

By Gillian Madill

THE XXIX OLYMPIAD in Beijingshowed us the great ability of theworld’s top athletes and, in equalmeasure, reminded us of the con-stant battle against cheaters whowill break rules and laws in order towin. Just prior to the Olympics, aGerman TV documentary exposed aChinese doctor offering the latest indoping technologies – gene doping –for $24,000 to someone he thoughtwas an American swim coach.Although China has made greatefforts to prevent illegal doping prac-tices, its increasing availability is asign that gene doping is no longersimply a science fiction fantasy.

Gene doping is an extremely dan-gerous and quickly developing tech-nology that would allow athletes togenetically enhance themselves tobecome bigger, stronger or faster.Gene doping uses the exact sametechnology as gene therapy – they

both involve the genetic modificationof human life – which has proven tobe lethal in multiple cases since thefirst gene therapy trial in 1990.

Gene doping is prohibited by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),which governs the Olympics, butthere is currently no way to detectthis high-tech method of cheating.WADA has invested more than $7million in research to find a way todetect gene doping in athletes, butuntil they do, it is possible that ath-letes are already trying thisextremely dangerous type of dop-ing. Athletes have approached sci-entists that publish their break-

throughs in genetic research onmice, seeking the most cutting edgedevelopments in doping technolo-gies – willing to risk their lives byusing an unproven doping methodto improve their performance.

The U.S. Congress passed a law in2006 prohibiting gene doping in allamateur athletics, following theWADA policy, which means a twoyear suspension for the first offense,followed by lifetime ineligibility forthe second offense. However, U.S.professional sports organizationsare not required to abide by thesepolicies. Star athletes already violatetheir own organization’s dopingpolicies – think Roger Clemens,Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi – in aneffort to hit harder or run faster.Unless we establish a strong, univer-sal policy against gene doping, it isvery likely that athletes will puttheir lives at risk for the chance atathletic stardom.

Deadly Doping

On July 18, 2008, Friends of the Earth sent letters to the top U.S. professional sports organizations asking them to prohibitgene-doping. This chart outlines the organizations we sent letters to, and the responses we received. We requested thatthe organizations respond by August 4, but so far have only received responses from a few. For the most recent andupdated list and to take action, please visit our website: www.foe.org and click on Healthy People on the left hand side.

ORGANIZATION RESPONDED? (as of 9/11/08) ACTION?

National College Athletic Association (NCAA) YES Supports all anti-doping efforts, but currently does NOT prohibit gene doping

National Football League (NFL) NO

National Basketball League (NBA / WNBA) NO

Major League Baseball (MLB) YES Currently does NOT prohibit gene doping, will consider it for 2009 season

National Hockey League (NHL) YES Adopts WADA list of prohibited substances and methods, which means gene doping IS PROHIBITED

Major League Soccer (MLS) YES Adopts WADA list of prohibited substances and methods, which means gene doping IS PROHIBITED

United States Golf Association (USGA) Still waiting for full response

World Golf Federation (WGF) is working with World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) experts indeveloping doping policy

Arena Football League (AFL) NO

Major League Lacrosse (MLL) NO

National Lacrosse League (NLL) YES Currently does NOT prohibit gene doping, but “intends to adopt an anti-gene doping policy”(no date specified)

By Danielle Fugere, Kate McMahonand Colin Peppard

AS OIL PRICES RISE, quick-fix scamssuch as gas-tax holidays and drillingfor oil in fragile ecosystems havebeen promoted as potential solu-tions for people struggling to makeends meet. Yet these are gimmicksthat will do nothing to relieve pres-sure at the pump and serve to onlypad the pockets of Big Oil, whiledelaying any real action to reduceenergy costs in the long run.

Our limping economy reflectsdecades of ad-hoc energy, transporta-tion and development policy.Transportation is now the secondlargest living expense after shelter,guzzling an average of 18 percent ofhousehold income. And as the weath-er gets colder in many parts of thecountry, heating expenses are expect-ed to reach record highs, furtherincreasing the cost of shelter. Whilethe wealthy more easily absorb theextra cost, the less affluent are forcedto make unrealistic choices betweengetting to work and feeding one’sfamily. Although this is a choice thatno family should have to make, highoil prices are here to stay.

Dire as it seems, there is a light atthe end of the tunnel. Friends of theEarth’s work on transportation andenergy can help lead us toward amore economically and environmen-tally sustainable future. By makingsmarter choices about how we growand invest in our communities, byrevitalizing the way we move people

and things, and by improving the carsthat we drive and weaning ourselvesoff of dirty and expensive energy, wecan begin to climb out of the hole wehave dug for ourselves. This movecalls for a shift away from a fossil fuelbased system and towards a greenenergy future. As a nation, we can dothis, and here is how.

If Not Oil, Then What?We can’t change the reality of the sit-uation – our energy and transporta-tion infrastructure, our psychologicalframework and our very culture arebased on consumption of fossil fuels.Like an addict scrounging for a fix,we are spending our last dimes ondirty, polluting oil. And Big Oil lovesit; last year the top five oil companiesraked in $119 billion in profit, all the

while receiving at least $32.9 billionin tax breaks and subsidies.

Excuse the cliché, but we mustbreak this addiction. Yet in doing so,we must be wary of false solutionsand quick fixes.

In recent years, biofuels have beentouted as a panacea to wean ourselvesoff of oil. However biofuels, for themost part, cause far more harm thangood, contributing to global warmingand keeping us shackled to the whimsof corporate interest – in this case BigAgriculture instead of Big Oil.

Nuclear power advocates are tryingto revive the industry, but the factremains that it is an immenselyexpensive source of energy, with aprice tag of $8,000 per kilowatt ofenergy, and there is still no viable stor-age option for toxic nuclear waste.

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High Gas Prices: Pain or Gain?

Big Oil's Ever Increasing Profits

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Even the coal industry has tried tore-brand itself as a “clean” energysource available right here at home.But make no mistake, even if thetechnology existed to reduce theglobal warming pollution from coal,with thousands of deaths attributedto coal mining and production, andhorrific degradation to our moun-tains, waterways and other naturalecosystems, coal is no cure-all.

Friends of the Earth believes thatpart of the solution lies in promot-ing policies that support sustainableenergy alternatives. We currentlyhave the wind power capacity tosupply 20 to 25 percent of our elec-tricity generation – but we need theinfrastructure to distribute it. Solarpower is getting cheaper every day,and soon options like covering ourroofs with solar panels could becommonplace – but offering incen-

tives for installing solar power couldmake it more affordable. We caneven use waste plant materials, suchas orange rinds and peanut shells, toproduce biomass electricity – if onlywe had the infrastructure.

Feeding all this energy into anefficient electrical grid could electri-fy our homes and our cars as plug-inhybrids and electric cars are brought

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Take Action: No Federal Money For New Roads!

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WITH 20 PERCENT OF U.S. GLOBALWARMING pollution coming from carsand trucks, it’s time for the federal gov-ernment to stop encouraging automo-bile use as our main transportationoption. Friends of the Earth is callingon Congress to stop funding new roadconstruction and instead focus on

repairing crumbling roads and bridgesand expanding and improving ourpublic transportation network.

Cut out the card below, fill it out,including your name and address,and send it in to the address below. If you want to know more about whywe are calling for an end to federal

funding of new roads, or to take thisaction online, please go to:www.RoadToNoWhere.org

Send this message to:Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure2165 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515

Dear members of the House Committee on Transportation:It’s time to declare the National Highway System complete. The reality of global warming and the poor

state of our current transportation infrastructure make the investment of any federal dollars in new road con-struction a bad choice.

Experts estimate that over $100 billion is needed annually for the next 20 years simply to bring ourroads, bridges and public transportation systems into good repair. Shifting federal spending away fromnew roads would be a big help, making up to $30 billion available each year for more important priorities.

Please take the historic and courageous step of transitioning the United States from an oil-addicted, car-driving nation to a sustainable one by ending federal funding of new road construction.

Sincerely,

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on the market. But we need repre-sentatives in Congress to make theseoptions a reality.

The United States once led theworld in innovation – and we havethe opportunity to use our ingenuityto tap into energy from the responsi-ble use of geothermal, waves andeven pressurized air. The solutions arethere, we just need to embrace them.

Electrifying CarsAs with every grey cloud, there is asilver lining to high oil prices –Americans are driving less anddemanding much more fuel efficientcars. According to the national high-way agency, Americans drove 53.2billion fewer miles from Novemberthrough June 2008 than they didover the same eight-month period ayear earlier.

Record numbers of Americans arealso trading in their gas guzzlers formore fuel efficient cars. Smaller carsand hybrids have been flying offauto dealer lots, and many con-sumers say they want even moreclean-vehicle choices.

The good news is that such vehi-cles are on their way. Friends of the

Earth has worked over the pastseven years to pass and defend thePavley law – California’s landmarkgreenhouse gas vehicle law. Nowadopted or being considered by 18other states, this law requiresautomakers to significantly reducegreenhouse gas pollution from newcars. Last year, we were successful inwinning a district court decisionupholding the law. Not surprisingly,the only thing currently standingbetween its application and a waveof clean new cars is the Bush admin-istration, which has deniedCalifornia the EPA waiver needed tomove forward with the law. Friendsof the Earth believes that this policywill change with a new president

and that highly efficient and alter-native fuel vehicles will soon becoming to auto dealers near you.

Along with fighting to implementthe Pavley law, Friends of the Earthhas also been working to promoteplug-in hybrid vehicles that can becharged at home overnight, provid-ing up to 40 miles of all-electric-pow-ered driving at a cost of less than$1.00 per gallon equivalent. One ofthe most important benefits of plug-in cars is that they have the potentialto be fueled with 100 percent renew-able power, including renewablepower generated by electric utilitiesor even solar installations in parkinglots and on homes. With GM’s recentannouncement of a 2010 target pro-duction date for the plug-in hybridVolt, the transition to clean, electric-drive vehicles is on the way.

Automobile IndependenceBy signing the Federal Aid HighwayAct in 1956, President Eisenhowerembarked the United States on ahistoric mission: to build one of thegreatest highway systems the worldhas ever seen.

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Yet due in part to the strangle-hold that Big Oil and the corporateroad building lobby have on ournational transportation policy we’veneglected other more equitable andenvironmentally sustainable trans-portation options such as publictransportation and passenger rail.Left with few alternatives, most peo-ple have little choice but to hop intheir cars and fill up their tanks.

In fact, fewer than five percent ofAmericans live within one-half mileof rail transit, and only half ofAmericans live within one-quartermile of any public transportation atall. It shouldn’t be surprising thatonly five percent of U.S. commuterstake public transportation to work.

There are options to un-tether usfrom our cars; public transportation,high speed passenger rail, biking andwalking are viable transportationsolutions that can ease both ourwarming climate and our wallets. Forexample, a typical two-adult, two-carhousehold can cut its greenhousegas emissions up to 30 percent byeliminating one car and using publictransportation for some trips. Thatsame family could save between$6,000 and $8,000 per year on gaso-line, since the typical transit riderconsumes about half as much gaso-line as a driver with no transit access.

What’s more, public transporta-tion investments have been shownto stimulate local economies, help-ing neighborhoods and communi-

ties to grow and develop in a sus-tainable way. Coupled with publictransportation access, such “livablecommunities” bring jobs, schools,shopping and recreation closer towhere people live, offering familiesthe opportunity to spend less timein traffic and more time together.With the right combination of bettertransportation choices and livablecommunities fighting climatechange, saving money and boostingthe economy go hand in hand.

Moving ForwardSeeking energy independence is nota choice between protecting theenvironment and supporting theeconomy. Often the most economi-cally viable option is also the mostenvironmentally sustainable. Forexample on the flipside of thismaxim drilling for oil will not reduceour transportation costs but it willendanger countless natural habitats.On the other hand, if we embracenew technologies that produce sus-tainable energy and use it more effi-ciently we could unfetter ourselvesfrom the whims of Big Oil, create jobsand lighten our carbon footprint.

We have reached a crossroads.Decisions made today could eitherhelp us blaze new trails in energyinnovation and make us strongerand more resilient to fluctuations inthe cost of oil or they could keep uson the same destructive path andencourage further instability. Thevery future of our civilization andplanet will be shaped by the choiceswe make in our homes and personallives and by what we demand fromdecision makers in Congress. Wemust demand sustainable and alter-native transportation and energychoices and seek out those optionswhen they become available. If thereever was a moment to act, nowwould be the time.

Friends of the Earth Staffer David HirschShares His Home Efficiency Story:Studies have shown that buildings account for morethan two-thirds of electricity and wasted energy,and nearly 40 percent of our national carbon diox-ide emissions. Ready to make some changes, thisyear I decided to get serious about energy conserva-tion in my own home.

I had already insulated my attic and added an exhaust fan to pushhot air out and keep the house cooler, and installed higher-efficiencywindows. Creating a net-zero-energy home by superinsulating theentire house and adding solar panels was out of my price range, so Ilooked at some small, yet important changes that could be made by any-one. I bought an inexpensive device called a “Kill A Watt” that, whenplugged into an appliance, measures how much energy the applianceuses. I discovered that my computer, my TV and even my cell phonecharger, were using energy even when turned off. Tired of wasting ener-gy and money, I used a series of power strips to cut the juice to my vari-ous appliances and electronics. Combined with an effort to turn offlights when I’m not in the room and other common sense moves, thishas slashed my monthly power bill by more than 40 percent.

I also made some changes to my water usage, including installingnew, adjustable flappers in my toilets and dropping bricks into the backof each tank – combining new technology and old-fashioned methods toconserve water. Along with simple things like shutting the faucet whilewashing dishes or brushing my teeth, these effortless changes have cutmy monthly water bill nearly in half.

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FRIENDS OF THE EARTH’S sisterorganization, Friends of the EarthAction, takes on politicians in bothparties who vote against clean ener-gy, human health and environmen-tal protection. Friends of the EarthAction is a non-tax deductibleorganization and therefore does nothave financial restrictions placed onits advocacy, meaning there is nodollar limit on its grassroots and leg-islative advocacy.

In the face of devastating climatedestabilization and unregulatednew technologies, Friends of theEarth Action is urging all voters to

learn where their elected officials, atall levels of government, stand onthe crucial issues of our time. Big Oilis making campaign contributions inhopes that its priorities are favoredin the coming years. And the recentbribery scandal involving major oilcompanies and Interior Departmentpersonnel proves that not all thosein public service positions are work-ing towards the public good. Friendsof the Earth Action endorses candi-dates for office that have strong pro-environment records and opposesthose that vote against the environ-ment. You can learn more by going

to the website atwww.foeaction.org.

Tax-deductibleorganizations arerestricted in howthey use dona-tions. But by givingmoney to Friends of theEarth Action you are helping toshape the future of environmentaland human health in a big way.

Please join and contribute this fall.

– Brent Blackwelder, President,Friends of the Earth Action

To donate, please go online to www.foeaction.org or send a check to: Friends of the Earth Action, 1717Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036 Please make your check payable to Friends of the EarthAction. If you have questions, call our Donor Relations Office at 1-866-217-8499.Friends of the Earth Action is a 501(c)(4) and donations to FoE Action are not tax deductible and may be used for political purposes such as supporting and opposing candidates through independent public advocacy.

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If your employer participates inthe federal government’s CombinedFederal Campaign, or in a corpo-rate, nonprofit, state or local gov-ernment workplace giving cam-paign, you can donate a portion ofyour salary to Friends of the Earththrough payroll deduction just bydesignating Friends of the Earth onyour pledge form.

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THE GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL,co-chaired by Ed Begley, Jr. and JayniChase, is a select group of Friends ofthe Earth supporters formed in2007. Members of the Councilreceive special benefits includingpersonal copies of Friends of theEarth’s groundbreaking reports,invitations to film premieres andexclusive events, and the opportuni-ty to receive special “thank you”gifts with their initial contributionof $500 or more.Global Stewardship Council mem-bers are part of the vanguard ofenvironmental philanthropistsstanding behind our most impor-tant, far-reaching efforts to combatglobal warming, prevent air andwater pollution, and keep toxins outof consumer products. Councilmembers have made possible someof our most important recent victo-ries including:• Winning a landmark U.S. Supreme

Court decision in a case that weinitiated that places responsibilityfor regulating CO2 as a pollutantsquarely on the shoulders of theEnvironmental Protection Agency;

• Pressuring the EPA to re-evaluateout-of-date testing for fuelmileage posted on window stick-ers of new vehicles, leading to

new, more accurate tests thatshow actual fuel economy asmuch as 15-20 percent less thanpreviously advertised;

• Exposing threats to children’shealth posed by toxins in babyproducts and furniture;

• Winning new regulations torequire new, cleaner engines onferries, recreational vessels andtugboats;

• Leading the opposition to defeatthe flawed Lieberman-WarnerGlobal Warming Bill. The bill failedto set reduction targets for globalwarming emissions at the levelthat sound science requires andproposed give-aways of morethan $1 trillion to coal, oil, gas andnuclear industries. Thanks to ouradvocacy, the House is alreadyconsidering stronger bills.

For more information on joining the Global Stewardship Council,please contact Hillary Blank at (415) 544 0790 x-19 or hblank@foe.org.

Announcing Friends of the Earth’s Global Stewardship Council

Zach Bouchard and Katie Mae Simpson

“I was looking for an organization that works on amyriad of environmental issues, has a strong influence,and doesn’t compromise its values the way other,sometimes larger, environmental organizations do. Ifound that in Friends of the Earth and we look forwardto continuing our support.”

– Zach Bouchard, co-contributor with business owners Rob Tafuri and Lee Eudy of Boston, MA

We urgently need your feedback to help us set priorities for protecting the environment and human health in thecoming year. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey inserted in this issue and return it to us within 14days in the attached envelope. Alternatively, you may go to www.foe.org/survey to take the survey online. Yourvaluable input is greatly appreciated.

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Fall Into a Good BookFRIENDS OF THE EARTH STAFFERSand friends have compiled anotherlist of not-to-miss books and movies:

Stan Cox is a seniorscientist at the LandInstitute in Salina,Kansas. In SICK PLAN-ET: CORPORATE FOODAND MEDICINE (PlutoPress, $24.95), hebuilds a structural cri-tique of global capital-ism’s destruction of the Earth’secosystems. Cox interviews peo-ple struggling withwaste from “big pharma” chemicalplants in India, industrial agricultur-al workers poisoned by pesticidesused in the heartland of the U.S.,and other losers in the globalizationsweepstakes. With great researchand carefully footnoted data, thisbook is an essential primer for any-one concerned with sustainableagriculture and nicely complementsrecent volumes by Bill McKibben andMichael Pollan.

– Ben Terrall, Freelance Journalist

As a member of ourClean Vessels cam-paign I can tell you,untreated sewage isa real threat to ourwaterways. In FLUSH(Knopf, $8.99), CarlHiaasen has writtena book for young adults that exposesthe lax regulation of sewage andenforcement of sewage dischargelaws. Noah’s father has been sent tojail after sinking a casino boat heswears is dumping raw sewage intothe harbor. After the boat’s ownergets back in business without penal-ty, Noah and his sister decide to take

matters into their own hands – andfind an ingenious way to bring thepolluters to justice.

– Neesha Kulkarni

Carbon is in the newseveryday, whether it’scarbon emissions,sequestration or foot-prints. Rarely do wespeak about carbonwith the reverence itdeserves as life’sbuilding block. In THE CARBON AGE(Random House, $25.99), Eric Rostongives us the history of the element,starting with the Big Bang all theway to present day. He focuses onhuman interaction and manipulationof the element, touching on dia-monds, coal mines, and even the car-bon nanotubes in Lance Armstrong’sbike. Roston does a great job ofexplaining the science of this basicelement and the monumental poli-cies surrounding it.

– Rebecca Connors

Humanity’s overindulgence andwasteful consump-tion leads toabsolute devasta-tion of the planet,transforming it intoan uninhabitablewasteland so toxic that no form oflife can subsist. Sounds a bit like awarning you might hear fromFriends of the Earth, not the backstory for a kid’s movie, right?Released in theaters early in thesummer of 2008, the movie WALL-E(Disney-Pixar) takes place in such asetting. The title character is a goofy,little trash-compactor robot-that-could, who is now the lone inhabi-

tant of Earth. Surrounded with thechatchkas of a lost civilization, WALL-E spends each day, for hundreds ofyears, sorting through landfills astall as skyscrapers, until suddenly anunexpected visitor arrives and theloveable WALL-E’s world changesabruptly as he stumbles into the roleof hero. The DVD is expected to bereleased during the holiday season;we highly recommend queuing it upon your rental list.

– Kate McMahon

How much hottercan it get beforemulti-year droughtsare common in theGreat Plains bread-basket? Or northernChina suffers chronicdroughts that dry upfarms and city taps alike? At whatpoint will a five-meter sea-level rise,due to Greenland’s ice melt, floodMiami, central London, and much ofManhattan, Bangkok, Bombay andShanghai? The potential slow-motioncollapse of our life-support systems ispreviewed in SIX DEGREES: OURFUTURE ON A HOTTER PLANET(National Geographic Society, $26.00).Reflecting a systematic review of hun-dreds of climatology journal articles,journalist and master storytellerMark Lynas brings to life endangeredhabitats, paleoclimates andthe hidden drama of climateresearch, depicting the path weshould not take, one degree at a time.[The answers to the questions above:one degree (Centigrade), two degrees,and two degrees, respectively – afterthat it gets considerably worse.]

– Will Driscoll

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