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Greenpeace calls on the industry to save Indian tea from pesticides. New study reveals the extent of pesticide residues found in tea
August 11th, 2014, Mumbai: Greenpeace India called on the tea industry to save Indian tea from pesticides while launching their report, Trouble Brewing [1], today. The study exposes the presence…
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Union Commerce Minister echoes Greenpeace’s concerns on pesticide residue in the national drink. Greenpeace urges Indian tea companies to look for real solutions and not hide behind the regulation
New Delhi, August 21, 2014: Expressing serious concern on the issue of pesticide residues in tea, the Union Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in a recent media interview, raised questions on…
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‘Govt’s stand on speedy re-allocation can ride roughshod over environmental laws’: Greenpeace India. This signals the end of cheap coal and national largesse to private players
New Delhi, September 1, 2014: Greenpeace today observed that the NDA government’s submission to the Supreme Court on the coal scam hearing was an attempt to make light of the…
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Tea Board’s Plant Protection Code is inadequate: Greenpeace India Tea companies should support Small Tea Growers’ transition to holistic ecological agriculture
Sept 3, 2014, New Delhi/Kolkata: While acknowledging the initiatives taken by the Tea Board of India to handle the pesticide menace in tea cultivation, Greenpeace India, today termed the Plant…
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Dirty Coal is shown the red card today Forest dwellers in Mahan celebrate as SC cancels the coal block; Activists urge govt to spare forest areas from mining while auctioning new blocks
New Delhi, September 24, 2014: Greenpeace India today celebrated the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the coal scam and called the verdict a victory for the environment and the people…
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Greenpeace meets Prakash Javadekar on India’s position on Climate Negotiations and Blockage of Funds
New Delhi |10 November, 2014| Greenpeace International’s Executive director, Kumi Naidoo and his Indian counterpart, Samit Aich met with Minister of Environment, Forests & Climate Change Prakash Javadekar today to…
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Greenpeace Activists Take Pro Solar Message to the Temple of the Sun in Machu Picchu as Climate Summit begins in Lima
Machu Picchu, Peru| 1, December 2014| Seven Greenpeace activists today projected the message “Act for the climate! Go solar!” onto the hill of Wayna Picchu to mark the beginning of…
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High Court Deems MHA action to be Arbitrary, Illegal and Unconstitutional; Victory of Democracy says Greenpeace
High Court has directed that the frozen amount will be credited to the FCRA account and Greenpeace will have access to it. Court has found that there is no material…
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Greenpeace Tracks the Obama Trail for pollution!
24th January, 2015, New Delhi: Delhiites have been breathing extremely poor air this winter with PM2.5 averages peaking at 320micrograms/cubic meter, 6 times the Indian safety limits and 14 times…
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Waidhan District Court dismisses Essar’s plea against Greenpeace
Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh | 20 February, 2015| As government battles it out with Greenpeace on the Priya Pillai offloading case, the NGO won an interim plea against Essar’s attempt to…