Media Contacts

2 November 2011, Washington, DC: Using forest timber for heating, electricity generation or liquid ‘biofuel’ could severely harm forests and accelerate global warming, according to a new report from Greenpeace.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 1st 2011 – Hasbro, the second largest toy company in the US, today announced a new global policy aimed at ensuring tropical rainforest timber and wood from other controversial sources is not used in its packaging.

Albuquerque, NM - Oct 27, 2011 - The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) yesterday unanimously recommended that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prevent chemical disasters by using unused authority in the Clean...

Los Angeles, California: Toy giant Mattel, the company behind Barbie, announced today that it will stop buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction following a global campaign by Greenpeace.

Pago Pago: Greenpeace today begins the next phase of its Defending the Pacific tour from American Samoa with a press briefing featuring a video statement from US Congressman Eni F. H. Faleomavaega.

Reacting to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement and Regulation / US Coastguard Joint Investigation Team's report into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in April 2010, Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford said:

La Jolla - Greenpeace today flew an airship in the hometown of tuna giant Chicken of the Sea, in La Jolla, California to highlight the dirty secret of the tuna industry – the hundreds of thousands of other animals killed by destructive fishing...