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1999

Dam Removal Success Stories Learn about the damaging effects of river dams and find out about the ecological, safety, and economic benefits that have already come about as a result of more than 465 dam removals across the United States. View (pdf format)

Arming the NGOs With Knowledge: A Guide to the International Monetary Fund Get the inside scoop on the nature, structure and activities of the IMF to de-mystify the institution and learn how it affects people's lives globally. This guide presents specific strategies for targeting the Fund and other related institutions. View (pdf format)

Tax Reform for Sustainable Agriculture Join Friends of the Earth in calling upon officials in 29 states to eliminate exemptions from their state sales taxes for agricultural chemicals such as pesticides. The $674 million in lost revenue could be used to support family farms, sustainable agriculture, and conservation education. View (pdf format)

Atmosphere Read about actions taken to preserve the earth's protective ozone layer and other work that FoE is doing to reduce global warming. Atmosphere will be published three times a year, to coincide with the major meetings of the parties to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances. View (HTML format)

Green Scissors Discover 72 ways the government could cut more than $50 billion in spending and subsidies that pollute our natural resources and threaten public health. View (pdf format)

Re-Ignite the Effort: Halon recover to Protect the Earth's Ozone Layer Find out what you can do to reduce the threat to the ozone layer posed by halons, chemicals long used in fire extinguishers and fire suppression systems. Hard copies of this 6-page brochure are available for $3. View (HTML format) Buy Now ($3 for one, $25 for 100).

A Race to the Bottom: Creating Risk, Generating Debt, and Guaranteeing Environmental Destruction Help us reform export credit and investment insurance agencies (ECAs) by learning how they finance environmentally and socially destructive projects. View (pdf format)

An Environmental Agenda for the District of Columbia 1999 Check out the DC Environmental Agenda 99, a collaborative effort of citizen activists that charts a course for environmental protection in the District of Columbia. View (HTML format)

OPIC, Ex-Im and Climate Change: Busines as Usual? Learn about hypocrisy at the highest levels. This report documents how the US government refused to combat global warming until developing countries such as China and India make similar commitments while at the same time, the government -- through OPIC and ExIm-- is actually financing greenhouse gas-causing fossil fuel development in these same countries. View (PDF format)

1998

Citizens' Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting Find out how an environmental tax shift could leade to more good jobs, less government waste, more environmental protection, and less pollution. View (pdf format) Buy Now ($15)

Trails of Destruction Discover how we can protect our public lands from the growing threat of off-road vehicles. View (HTML format) Buy Now ($10)

License to Loot: The MAI and How to Stop it Read a comprehensive description of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), a treaty that would elevate the rights of foreign corporations over the public's ability to protect the environment. It also outlines actions concerned activists can take to stop the MAI. Mark Vallianatos. View (pdf format) Buy Now ($10)