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National Precedent in Clean Water Act Ruling |
Federal court says Army Corps violated Act by letting mine kill Alaska
lake
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The federal Clean Water Act cannot be used to
destroy an Alaskan lake, a federal appeals court said today, in a ruling
that may set precedent about how the Act is interpreted nationwide....Full Story |
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President Bush Lifts Ban on Oil Drilling in Fragile Alaska Waters |
| Washington, D.C. - President Bush today exercised his executive authority to lift the ban on drilling off the southwest coast of Alaska in the fragile, salmon-rich waters of Bristol Bay. Bristol Bay, one of the world’s most productive marine systems for fish, marine mammals and migratory birds, has enjoyed federal protection since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989....Full Story |
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Groups Sue over Weak National Air Pollution Standards |
| Health, Environmental Groups File Court Challenge to EPA Particulate
Matter Pollution Standard:
EPA maintains nearly decade old annual pollution levels that has been
linked to thousands of deaths annually
Washington, D.C. - Public health and environmental groups today filed
suit against the U....Full Story |
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Two Billion Homes Could Be Free From Escalating Electricity Costs |
| Solar power lights the way for the energy revolution. Dresden, Germany September 6, 2006 – Two billion households worldwide could realistically be powered by solar energy by 2025, according to a joint report launched today by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) and Greenpeace (1)....Full Story |
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Illegal Genetically Engineered Chinese Rice Discovered in Europe |
| Health Risks Require Immediate Recall and Import Ban Amsterdam, September 5 2006 - Greenpeace International released findings today that show illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice from China has contaminated food products in France, Germany and the UK....Full Story |
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EU restrictions on illegal US rice imports inadequate |
| Brussels, International 23 August 2006 - Greenpeace International criticized the announcement by the European Commission (EC) today as a minimal response to a serious contamination problem....Full Story |
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Bush Administration’s Answer to BP Oils Spills and Shutdown: More Drilling in Alaska |
| Fragile Teskekpuk Lake Area Up For Oil Leasing Anchorage, AK -- Following closely on the heels of the largest oil spill in North Slope history and the recent pipeline shutdown in Prudhoe Bay, the Bush administration today formally announced a Sept....Full Story |
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Call for Immediate Closure of Sweden's Nuclear Reactors Following Near-Meltdown Incident |
| STOCKHOLM - August 3 - Sweden’s nuclear regulator SKI will meet in emergency session tomorrow (3 August) to decide on a possible immediate shut-down of all but one of the country’s nuclear power stations supplying up to 50% of Sweden’s electricity....Full Story |
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Wildlife Refuge Used for Genetically Modified Crops |
| WASHINGTON - November 7 - The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has decided to expand a controversial give-away in which local farmers grow genetically modified soybeans and corn on Delaware’s at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge....Full Story |
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Climate change to intensify Asia's misery, says scientist |
Manila, 4 November 2005 - An explosive report released today by Greenpeace
reveals how climate change will deepen the misery of Filipinos along with other
Asians unless measures are taken to drastically cut the use of fossil fuels
such as coal....Full Story |
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Genetically engineered organisms out of control in Romania
Ex-Monsanto director speaks out |
| Bucharest, 10 October 2005 - Massive illegal cultivation of genetically
engineered (GE) crops threatens farmers and the economy in Romania. At a
Greenpeace press conference today in Bucharest, Monsanto’s former general
manager in Romania warned that Romanian authorities have totally lost control
over genetically modified organisms in the country....Full Story |
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Greenpeace exposes pirate fishing on the Arctic high seas |
Barents Sea, 19 September 2005--Greenpeace today stopped the
Togo-flagged, factory trawler ’Murtosa’, from illegally fishing for cod
in the international section of the Barents Sea known as the
"Loophole"....Full Story |
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Argentinean Ancient Forests Trashed for GE Soya Plantations
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| POZO DEL TUME, SALTA, ARGENTINA - Greenpeace today stopped two bulldozers from clearing the forest to expand the GE Soya frontier further into what is left of the Great American Chaco Forest.Four activists on motorbikes have blocked these machines, and another four on two helicopters (painted as jaguars) has filmed the devastation of the forests from the air....Full Story |
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Greenland Glacier Discovery: Greenland glacier almost triples speed in less than two decades
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| East Coast Greenland, July 21, 2005: Independent scientists on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise yesterday discovered that a Greenland glacier has accelerated in the past nine years, exceeding all expectations, and has now become one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world....Full Story |
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How Did Oil Get Beneath the Arctic?: 'The Origin Ozone.' |
NEWPORT, R.I., July 20, 2005 -- Fossil fuels were once
vegetation....Full Story |
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Nearly 300 Groups Reject Nuclear Energy as a Global Warming Solution |
| Groups Urge Congress to Choose Clean Energy Path, Not Embrace Dangerous and Dirty Nuclear Power WASHINGTON, D.C.– In response to an industry campaign touting new nuclear reactors as a solution to global warming, nearly 300 international, national, regional and local environmental, consumer, and safe energy groups reiterated their substantial concerns today over nuclear energy and rejected the argument that nuclear power can solve global warming....Full Story |
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South Korean Government scraps whale meat factory on eve of hosting IWC |
| Ulsan, South Korea 15 June, 2005 - "Greenpeace and KFEM are greatly
encouraged by news released today in the South Korean publication, The
Hankyoreh, that plans to build a whale meat factory in Ulsan, South
Korea have been scrapped....Full Story |
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Sierra Club Denounces Senate Confirmation of Justice Brown; Urges Defeat of Pryor |
| WASHINGTON, DC: The Senate’s confirmation of Janice Rogers Brown for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals could have serious and long-term impacts on the nation’s environmental protections. Justice Brown’s avowed hostility to laws that protect our air, water, and lands and her tendency to rule based on personal philosophy make her unfit to serve on the D....Full Story |
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Sierra Club Response To Bush Speech: America Needs Real Solutions |
| Statement by Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club "In his Rose Garden speech today, President Bush offered up the same
polluting trade and energy policies that he has been pushing since the
beginning of his administration....Full Story |
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JUDGE RULES US DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MUST CONSIDER FATE OF OKINAWA DUGONG |
| San Francisco, USA/Okinawa, Japan - Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on Wednesday denied a motion by the US Department of Defense to dismiss a lawsuit challenging plans to construct a new airbase on a coral reef on the east coast of Okinawa, Japan (Okinawa Dugong v. Rumsfeld, N.D. Cal., C-03-4350)....Full Story |
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Congress Considers Bill to Keep Public in the Dark about Pollution |
| Washington, DC: The Senate and House are likely to consider a rider to the Omnibus appropriations bill that would exempt polluting factory farms from requirements to report their toxic chemical releases to local, state and federal agencies.The rider originated with Senator Larry Craig of Idaho....Full Story |
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EU Fleet Exposed Destroying Deep Sea Life as UN Meets to Discuss Protection |
| North Atlantic Ocean, 18 October 2004 -- The needless destruction of the high seas was exposed by Greenpeace this morning, after documenting a EU bottom trawler operating in the North Atlantic....Full Story |
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