The timber industry has announced it is suing the U.S. government to force the release of 16 shipments of Brazilian mahogany that Greenpeace, the Brazilian government and the U.S. Department of Interior have deemed either illegal or under investigation.
On the heels of news that the Brazilian Amazon is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years and today’s study showing that the rainforest is disappearing twice as fast as previously thought, Greenpeace warned that Americans are a major culprit in the destruction of the Amazon.
Survival of the world's remaining polar bears is increasingly jeopardized by the rapid disappearance of the arctic sea ice on which they depend for hunting, mating and migration, according to three leading conservation groups that today announced they are taking legal action to have the bears listed as "threatened" under America's Endangered Species act. They point to extensive scientific evidence showing that the unprecedented polar meltdown is the result of global warming.
“Secretary Salazar’s failure to rescind this regulation
only serves to cement the Bush administration’s legacy of ignoring global warming science, thus putting the polar bear at further risk of extinction,” said Melanie Duchin, Greenpeace’s global warming campaigner in Alaska. “Regrettably, it seems to reflect an emerging willingness by
the Obama administration to ignore clear scientific imperatives on global warming in the face of industry pressure.”
ExxonMobil's announcement that it will contribute $100 million dollars to Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project is the latest attempt by the company to "greenwash" their poor track record on global warming.
Washington–Greenpeace today urged government ministers from the world’s 17 biggest greenhouse polluters (1) to "Stop Global Warming" and "Rescue the Planet" from the devastating effects of climate change. The international environmental group greeted the ministers with the banner message hung from a construction crane near the State Department as they assembled in Washington D.C. for climate talks under the Major Economies Forum (MEF) process.
Washington—Police arrested 44 people for participating in a protest of Duke Energy’s plans to add massive additional coal burning to the company’s Cliffside plant. Those arrested include: Jim Warren of NC Warn; Bo Webb and Mike Roselle from Coal River Mountain in Appalachia; Larry Gibson and Mike McCoy-from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth; and several Rutherford County residents where the construction is underway. They will likely be charged with second-degree trespass.
Digvijay Singh, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, instructed his officers in the presence of an ICJB delegation to drop all charges against activists who were trying to contain a fraction of the tons of hazardous waste lying abandoned at the Union Carbide factory.
In a letter sent to Dow Chemical's CEO, Michael Parker and board Chair, William Stavropoulos, a group of investors urged Dow Chemical to take responsibility for the toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India that killed thousands of people.
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