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Residents who live in the shadow of the Hatfield’s Ferry coal plant gathered today to volunteer a small portion of their hair for a nationwide scientific study of mercury exposure. The sampling event, conducted by Greenpeace, comes weeks after activists from the environmental group raised attention to the issue of power plant pollution with a large banner hang at the Hatfield’s Ferry plant. The open house at the Italo-American Club collected data for Greenpeace’s Nationwide Hair Sampling Project and educated those in attendance about the growing national concern over the levels of the toxic metal mercury in people’s bodies.

A new muckraking project, PolluterWatch, launched today with the express intent of exposing and pushing back on polluting industry influence peddling and propaganda. The project, launched with an effort to legally obtain, organize and post large numbers of emails by top global warming deniers and top polluting industry lobbyists who “served” in the Bush Administration.

Responding to an announcement from the North Pacific Fishery Management Council on the 2010 catch limit of 813,000 million metric tons for the pollock fishery today, George Pletnikoff, Greenpeace senior oceans campaigner in Anchorage, offered the following statement:

Greenpeace today presented new evidence exposing illegal forest clearing by Sinar Mas group in Kalimantan and has called on Indonesian President to order the suspension of all its operations. Sinar Mas is already notorious for its involvement in illegal forest clearance through its pulp and paper subsidiary Asia Pulp and Paper (APP).

René Ngongo, Greenpeace Africa Political Advisor and civil society activist for 18 years, today receives the Right Livelihood Award at the Swedish Parliament for his dedicated, and at times dangerous, work in defending the rights and livelihood of Democratic Republic of Congo’s forest communities. Rene continued his advocacy this week with a joint open letter to the World Bank criticizing their policies that encourage industrial logging in the DRC.

Just days before an international conference commences in South Africa to finalize a global ban on some of the world's most dangerous toxic chemicals, Greenpeace activists took further action against one of the eight chemical companies in Louisiana, where toxic pollution has left many residents of the community seriously ill.

Pointing to corporate and government mismanagement, three Greenpeace activists today unfurled a 40-foot banner from the State Capitol in Sacramento, saying "TAKE BACK THE POWER. CLEAN ENERGY NOW." Citing evidence that clean technology such as wind energy is the fastest to construct, the cleanest to run and cheapest to buy, Greenpeace demanded that state politicians prioritize clean energy over new fossil fuel plants that contribute to air pollution and global warming.

Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark has been given notice that its products have been removed from Aspen Ski Company’s four ski mountains, two hotels, 15 restaurants, and the “Kleenex Corner” sign on Aspen Mountain has been removed after 40 years. The decision comes following discussions between the ski resort company, which hosts 1.4 million skiers each year, and Greenpeace regarding Kimberly-Clark, parent company to Kleenex and Scott brands, and their refusal to stop using virgin paper fiber from the endangered North American Boreal forests.

Greenpeace welcomed today’s decision by Indonesia’s Forest Minister, Zulkifli Hasan, to temporarily stop paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) from destroying the carbon-rich forest peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula, Sumatra, pending a review of the company’s permits.



Greenpeace Executive Director John Passacantando will personally deliver a plane ticket for the global warming talks in Bonn next month to Governor Gray Davis on Monday, June 25. Passacantando will be accompanied by three Greenpeace protesters bearing signs that say, "Clean Energy Now!" an oversized boarding pass, and carry-on luggage tagged "Bonn or Bust."