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Build Back Fossil Free: Biden’s Decision To Cancel Lease Sales in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico Must Be “Just the Beginning”
The coalition of over 1,200 groups will continue to resist onshore drilling and push for the upcoming 5-year plan to stop all offshore leasing These now-canceled lease sales would have…
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Biden administration must rein in electricity-intensive cryptocurrency mining to meet climate goals
To tackle our climate crisis, we must rapidly phase out fossil fuels, and we need cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to help, not hinder that effort. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Environmental organizations led…
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Greenpeace USA Joins Coalition of Environmental Groups Calling for Supreme Court Expansion
This week, we saw a draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade and tear down a long-held right for women and reads as an open invitation for future attacks…
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Amazon deforestation has the worst April on record, almost double the destruction of the same period last year
More than 1000 km² (386.1 m²) of forest destroyed in the last month, according to Brazilian government Deforestation alerts released today by the monthly DETER-B data series of the national…
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Greenpeace USA Responds to EU Plans to Ban Russian Oil
Peace and energy security will be powered by renewables, not by trading Russian oligarchs for American oil and gas barons. In response to the European Commission’s proposed package of new…
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Greenpeace USA responds to overturning Roe v Wade
Our democracy and the rule of law are both at stake here. In response to the Leaked Draft Supreme Court of the United States’ Opinion overturning Roe v Wade, Ebony…
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Greenpeace USA Activists Who Protested Houston’s Fossil Fuel Industry Will Be Cleared Of All Criminal Charges
This was a peaceful action. The most dangerous thing about that shipping channel wasn’t the activists — it was and continues to be fossil fuel executives’ reckless plans to push…
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Greenpeace USA joins USW Local 5, expanding its picket to water to demand a fair contract from Chevron
“Fossil fuel executives and their lobbyists have maintained their dominance by pretending to have the best interest of workers and communities at heart.” Richmond, California – This morning, activists with Greenpeace…
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Tanker crosses Greenpeace-supported USW Local 5 Picket Line
Chevron announced this morning that its profits quadrupled in the first quarter of 2022, to $6.3 billion, but it’s far from using those profits to pay its workers a fair…
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Greenpeace welcomes California AG Subpoena of ExxonMobil to stop plastic pollution disinformation, urges governments to do more to stop fossil fuel industry
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced today the subpoena of ExxonMobil Executives as part of its investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and…