Greenpeace News Releases

Greenpeace applauded General Motors today on its announcement to eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or vinyl plastic, from its automobile interiors. The international environmental organization then called on the worldwide auto industry to...

In a victory for fish and fishermen, the Atlantic Star, one of the huge factory trawlers eyeing the East Coast herring and mackerel fisheries, has called it quits. By trading in her U.S. flag for a Dutch flag and changing her name to the Aneellas...

The United States is deliberately backing away from action to eliminate the highly toxic chemical, dioxin, a substance that is wreaking havoc on the health and environment of Louisiana, Greenpeace charged today.

Greenpeace today welcomed The Home Depot's announcement of its commitment to eliminate from its shelves wood from endangered forests by the end of 2002. The environmental group hailed the decision as a necessary step in preserving the world's few...

Greenpeace unfurled a 100-foot long floating banner in a dioxin polluted bayou, with the words "Dioxin starts here" and pointed it at the chemical giant PPG.

Greenpeace posts permanent signs in the bayous of the Calcasieu Estuary warning residents not to fish or swim in the highly contaminated waters.

From the steps of the State Capitol building, Greenpeace today launched a "Toxics Patrol" bus trip to more than a dozen of the state's chemical facilities whose emissions have made Louisiana a "global toxic hot spot."

Greenpeace today released a report, The Chain of Destruction: The United States Market and Canada's Rainforests, detailing how trees from Canada's ancient forests end up in the United States marketplace. The report was handed out during today's...

Today Greenpeace activists installed The Home Depot's logo on a clear cut swath of ancient trees in British Columbia, Canada, in protest of the company's refusal to stop selling wood from ancient forests. Greenpeace will present the image of...