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Coal Market Report – Risks to US coal mining and export proposals, July 2015
The US coal industry is facing structural decline and companies pursuing coal export proposals in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are particularly at risk. This update highlights execution risks for PNW…
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Carbon Capture SCAM
Supporters of carbon capture for oil extraction claim that oil produced with CO2 injection is going to get produced somewhere else anyway, and therefore would actually be ‘green’ oil because it keeps CO2 from…
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Meet a Volunteer: Mateo Raises Awareness for the Arctic
Meet Mateo, a Greenpeace volunteer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He’s joining the fight to save the Arctic by screening documentaries and raising awareness in his community. Mateo and people like…
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Meet a Volunteer: Kaitlyn Organizes for Sustainable Tuna
Meet Kaitlyn, a Greenpeace volunteer from Bowling Green, Ohio. She’s leading a campaign to push her college campus to only serve sustainably caught tuna. Kaitlyn and people like you are…
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Meet a Volunteer: Psera Mobilizes Her Community to Save the Arctic
Meet Psera, a Greenpeace volunteer from Lexington, Kentucky. She’s pushing to keep fossil fuels in the ground—especially in the vulnerable Arctic—by organizing in her community. Psera and people like you…
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Carting Away the Oceans 2015
Our Carting Away the Oceans report, released annually since 2008, identifies which major grocery chains are leaders in sustainable seafood and which are falling behind. The findings are telling. In…
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Case studies: The impacts of extracting and burning natural gas
Numerous studies have shown that the processes of extracting and burning natural gas, including fracking, have grave environmental impacts. Here are a few of them.
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Natural gas: Methane’s contributions to global warming
Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal and other fossil fuels. This has led to widespread support for replacing other fossil fuels with methane, the main component of natural gas. There’s only one catch—methane is actually a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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The People Vs. Shell: Why I Took to the Water to Stop Arctic Drilling
June 11, 2015 It’s a beautiful, clear June day near my childhood home in Graham, Washington, and I am looking out across a grassy horse pasture towards the majestic Mt.…
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What It’s Like to Be a Kayaktivist in the Way of Shell’s Giant Rig
I was nervous getting into the water, knowing that I was literally confronting one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, Royal Dutch Shell, by paddling my small…
