None of the 16 biggest grocery retailers in the U.S. have done enough to purge forced labor and other human rights abuses from tuna fish supply chains, a flashpoint for the industry in recent years, according to a new scorecard report from Greenpeace USA. Additionally, only two of the retailers — Aldi and Whole Foods — received passing grades for addressing environmental and sustainability issues in sourcing tuna. In total, of the 16 retailers, only Aldi received an overall passing grade in the scorecard: 61.5% out of 100.
In response to reports of a spate of whale deaths off the North East Coast of the United States, Arlo Hemphill, Greenpeace USA’s Senior Oceans Campaigner, said: “The unusual number of humpbacks washing up in New Jersey, New York, and Maryland recently is cause for alarm."
The reinstatement of the 2001 conservation measure on the Tongass National Forest is a huge win in the face of its rollback by the Trump administration
The House Oversight Committee report shows that Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP continue their decades-long campaign of roadblocking true, science-based climate solutions.
In response to Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer’s dirty permitting deal being removed from the NDAA, Greenpeace USA Chief Program Officer Tefere Gebre said: “The will of the people triumphed over Big Oil and the politicians they can buy."
Greenpeace USA Chief Program Officer and labor leader Tefere Gebre calls on CA legislators to put working Californians over polluter greed.
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