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Okmoi people file an administrative lawsuit to revoke EIA report
The lawsuit specifically challenges the coal mine's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and aims to ensure that the flawed EIA is revoked, and a new assessment is conducted in a transparent manner and with meaningful participation from the affected local communities.
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Activists send plastic waste back to Nestle, call out company for greenwashing
Nestle continues to figure in waste and brand audits as one of the worst polluters. The company also ranks 6th among global fast moving consumer goods companies in a recent Break Free From Plastic report on false solutions, with Nestle leading the way in terms of questionable “plastic neutrality” agreements with other companies.
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Thai CSOs and local groups file a lawsuit to demand government action against PM2.5 pollution
The lawsuit was pushed after the Environmental Law Foundation (EnLaw) and Greenpeace Thailand submitted a petition letter to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Industry on January, 17. The petition demanded that those two public departments implement the Action the Plan for Driving National Agenda on “Solving the Problem of…
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Resilience? You say it like it’s a good thing.
For many individuals and communities who have lost loved ones and livelihoods to disasters, the term “resilience” is a double-edged sword that can cut both ways. Much like “toxic positivity” in the online sphere in the age of COVID, Filipino communities at the frontlines of climate impacts have been growing weary and wary of the…
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DOE renamed “Department of Dangerous and Dirty Energy”
The Philippine government’s nuclear delusions are going to cost Filipinos not just money, but also their lives, health, livelihoods, and their future. The DOE should stop peddling nuclear power and President Duterte should revoke EO 164.
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Protect Indigenous Peoples and Forests: Revoke Plantation Permits for PT Permata Nusa Mandiri
JOINT STATEMENT Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability in Tanah Papua
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No room for inaction as latest report reveals rapid worsening of climate impacts – Greenpeace Philippines
Greenpeace Philippines today renewed the call for urgent climate action following yesterday’s release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Desperate forest clearing, legal uncertainty follows bungled permit review
The Indonesian government’s half-hearted forestland permit review has created a perverse incentive for forest clearing by companies desperate to retain dormant land banks. Greenpeace is calling for the policy to be clarified, to ensure companies whose permits are listed for revocation are not allowed to undertake such panic clearing.
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Oil Pollution at Sea: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Liability
Oil spills and other forms of marine pollution regularly occur along oil transportation routes where oil tankers load and offload and where petroleum companies operate. Since 1974, there have been at least 240 oil spill incidents in Thai waters. Information on these incidents are often incomplete.
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Coal import dependence to worsen energy security in Southeast Asia; Governments must maximize Clean and Renewable Energy – Greenpeace
Following the Indonesian government’s decision to ease its temporary ban on coal export, environmental organization Greenpeace Southeast Asia warned that more energy crises will arise if governments continue their dependence on fossil fuel imports.