This report details many successes in 2005:

Improved Automobile Fuel Efficiency – Our Bluewater Network ran a series of advertisements in the New York Times and other publications pressuring Ford Motor Company to improve their fleet’s fuel economy. 

Cancer Prevention – Friends of the Earth and our partners in the Safe Cosmetics Campaign have signed nearly 200 companies onto our Compact for Safe Cosmetics.  These companies, have pledged not to use chemicals in their products that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer.

Protected America’s Rail System – Friends of the Earth’s nationwide organizing efforts helped build significant momentum in Congress to fully fund Amtrak, while blocking the Bush administration’s plan to bankrupt the system.

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Greening the Budget 2005: 6 Ways to Save Taxpayer Dollars and Protect the Environment in the Commonwealth of Virginia

The six fiscally sound and environmentally friendly “green budget” policies set forth in this report show how Virginia can save taxpayer dollars while discouraging waste and pollution and protecting Virginia’s natural resources.

Green Fees & Scissors in Texas: 13 Recommendations for Greening the State Budget

This report offers thirteen fiscally sound recommendations that could help these leaders ease the budget crisis – potentially freeing up more funds for schools – more adequately fund important natural resource programs, while discouraging pollution and natural resource degradation.

As a global community, we are at a critical juncture in deciding how to address these energy needs. A new energy path is needed to provide energy for billions of people, while also ensuring an environmentally and socially sustainable future. As this report describes, renewable energy represents an enormous and largely untapped opportunity to bring energy to many of the poorest people around the world.

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