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New Report: 16 Biggest U.S. Grocery Retailers Failed on Forced Labor and Human Rights Abuses When Sourcing Tuna—a US$42.2 Billion Industry
As UN negotiations for a global oceans treaty are set to resume, private-sector respect for basic human rights and environmental safeguards is still found lacking throughout the tuna supply chain…
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Ohio Train Wreck Could Be Biden’s Chance to Champion Chemical Safety
Last week’s 50-car chemical train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio came very close to causing a major disaster. Residents had to be evacuated for 5 days while the resulting fire…
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The High Cost of Cheap Tuna
Hi! I’m Marilu Cristina Flores, a Senior Oceans Campaigner with Greenpeace’s Beyond Seafood campaign. While I’ve only been working on this particular campaign for a short time (around three months),…
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The High Cost of Cheap Tuna: US Supermarkets, Sustainability, and Human Rights at Sea
Published: 02-13-2023 Edition: 2nd Download: PDF A net bulging with tuna and bycatch on the Ecuadorean purse seiner ‘Ocean Lady’, which was spotted by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands while using fishing aggregating devices (FADs). Around 10% of the catch generated by purse seine FAD fisheries is unwanted bycatch and includes…
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Greenpeace USA Tells Biden To Finish The Job, Deliver On Your Climate Promises
Biden: We need you to finish the job. Put the full force of your power as president behind your climate promises. WASHINGTON DC (Feb. 7, 2023)–In response to the State…
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Big Oil Forces A Hold on California Law Ending Neighborhood Drilling
Last fall – after a decade of campaigning for protections for people living near oil drilling – California frontline communities and environmental justice groups, alongside Greenpeace USA and our supporters,…
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Big Oil Spends Millions to Block California Law Protecting Neighborhoods from Toxic Drilling
“Big Oil’s callous indifference to our democracy and our health, all in the name of growing their own profits, is on full display.” California law to end oil drilling in…
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Greenpeace USA Joins Groups Urging Biden to Say No to ConocoPhillips’ Arctic Drilling Project
Interior just released another deficient environmental impact statement for the ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil and gas proposal. Biden can still uphold his climate promises by saying no to Willow. Overwhelming public…
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American financial institutions are providing a lifeline to Bitcoin while it kills the climate
Between the ongoing FTX debacle and widespread talk of a “crypto winter,” the eventual (and potentially imminent) demise of cryptocurrency seems inevitable to some. But here’s the reality: for better…
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Greenpeace Calls for Ocean Protection to Address Whale Deaths
In response to reports of a spate of whale deaths off the North East Coast of the United States, Arlo Hemphill, Greenpeace USA’s Senior Oceans Campaigner, said: “The unusual number…
