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Following years of campaigning by Greenpeace and other environmental groups, BP announced it is dropping plans for the controversial Liberty oil field in Alaska.

WASHINGTON -- Greenpeace launched a new report today that shines a light on the dangerous environmental and financial risks associated with sub-national REDD offset projects. The report, “Carbon Scam: Noel Kempff Climate Action Project and the Push for Sub-national Forest Offsets,” (1) examines the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project (NKCAP) in Bolivia, which is sponsored by American Electric Power, BP and PacifiCorp. The report finds that the project did not deliver promised emissions reductions and failed to address fundamental shortcomings. The report concludes that REDD offsets are too unreliable to be included in cap and trade systems.

Despite international condemnation and little domestic support, a six-ship whaling fleet is due to sail from Shimonoseki in Japan, with plans to hunt nearly 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Greenpeace is calling on the Japanese government to keep the fleet in port, stop their fake research program and commit to protecting endangered species instead of hunting them.

A Greenpeace analysis of the California Power Authority's (CPA) draft Energy Resource Investment plan shows the plan lacks concrete measures to meet its goals of clean energy for the state.

Greenpeace activists held a demonstration today, using a bus outfitted as a giant tissue box to protest at the entrance of Kimberly-Clark's largest mill facility in North America. The activists are refusing to move until the company agrees to meet with Greenpeace representatives and establishes a timeline to end sourcing wood fiber from logging operations in the Boreal forest.

Nine of the Greenpeace activists who pled guilty on January 8, 2002 to the misdemeanor charge of conspiring to trespass during a peaceful protest against Bush's national missile defense program, received one year probation and will not serve further jail time.

JBS-Friboi, the world’s largest exporter of meat products and one of the largest companies in Brazil, announced today that it will no longer buy cattle raised in areas of the Amazon that were deforested after Sept. 23, 2009. They also announced that they will remove from its suppliers’ lists any farms in the region involved with slave labor or caught raising cattle on Indigenous Lands or Protected Areas.

The California Power Authority (CPA) submittedits Energy Resource Investment Plan "Clean Growth: Clean Energy for California's Economic Future" to the state legislature. Greenpeace congratulates the CPA for submitting such a strong plan to the legislature. In particular, we are pleased that it allows institutions like the Los Angeles Community Colleges access to low cost financing programs in order to go solar.

Responding to the recent announcement regarding the reinstatement of the Clinton-era roadless rule protecting 58.5 million acres of national forests, Greenpeace Executive Director, John Passacantando issued the following statement:

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today reinstated the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, restoring protections to about 40 million acres of National Forest lands. In light of the ruling, Greenpeace urged President Obama to avoid future lawsuits and controversy by permanently protecting Roadless Areas in National Forests, including those in Idaho and Alaska’s Tongass National Forest which were unaffected by today’s ruling.