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Following the announcement by President Obama that there will be no expansion of offshore drilling until investigations into the BP Deepwater Disaster are complete, Greenpeace Executive Director, Philip Radford made the following statement:

New findings released by Greenpeace reveal that the science presented by the Canadian government to justify its commercial seal hunt for the years 2003-2005 is inaccurate, incomplete and out of date. The report concludes that the only sustainable and scientifically justifiable course of action is to suspend the hunt immediately.

Greenpeace International Wednesday denied charges by Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Budweiser beer, that it had made misleading, false and defamatory statements about the beer-maker’s operations. Greenpeace released test results on Monday showing the presence of an untested, experimental strain of genetically engineered (GE) rice in beer brewed for consumption in the United States. Greenpeace is continuing to call for Anheuser-Busch to make a public commitment to produce all of its beer GE free.

Greenpeace is mourning the death of Sister Dorothy Stang, a longtime advocate for the disempowered in the Brazilian Amazon. The 74-year-old nun was assassinated by two gunmen on Saturday in the state of Pará, Brazil, as she was travelling to a sustainable development project in Anapú. Greenpeace had worked with Sister Dorothy to oppose corrupt logging companies in the region.

The following is a statement from Pamela Wellner, Senior Forest Campaigner for Greenpeace on the changes to the National Forest Management Act that the Bush administration announced yesterday:

On the opening day of the U.S. Forest Service’s Centennial Congress, Greenpeace, in cooperation with the Big Sky Conservation Institute, has identified the nation’s last remaining intact forests and faulted the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for failing to protect them. America’s Keystone Forests: Mapping the Next 100 Years of Forest Protection names 11 "Keystone Forests," the biggest forest areas left in the United States that provide the best habitat for the most diverse species. Most of these forests are found on public land managed by the Forest Service or the BLM.

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge stated on October 30 that trains carrying hazardous chemicals were being re-routed around Washington, D.C. in response to the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden. However, Greenpeace has learned that such shipments have in fact been secretly re-routed since March 11, 2004. The change was instituted after the terrorist attacks on commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, but may continue only through Inauguration Day 2005.

As IT industry analysts label 2010 the “Year of the Cloud”, a new report by Greenpeace shows how the launch of quintessential cloud computing devices like the Apple iPad raises fresh questions about how the internet is powered and whether the IT sector will continue to fuel climate change by increasing demand for dirty coal power. But the report also shows how IT can become a transformative force by advocating for solutions that increase renewable energy use and reduce global warming pollution.

Greenpeace took direct action on the high seas to highlight the deep sea devastation caused by bottom-trawling fishing boats, in the face of continued moves by the EU to block a UN high seas moratorium.

A new Greenpeace report (1) reveals Nestlé is using palm oil from destroyed Indonesian rainforests and peatlands in popular products like Nestlé Crunch, CoffeeMate, and PowerBar (2), pushing already endangered orangutans to the brink of extinction and accelerating climate change.