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Taxing Big Oil’s Obscene Profits is Only Fair
When profits are high, oil companies keep all the profits. When profits are low, taxpayers have to bail them out. It is simply not fair. WASHINGTON DC (Oct. 31, 2022)–In…
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Midterm Elections Are Critical to Both Democracy and Climate: A Tale of Two Congressional Races
Big Oil executives and the politicians under their influence are lining up to detonate the next big climate bomb, which is locked beneath the surface of West Texas and Southeast…
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Greenpeace Urges Governments to Stop Deep Sea Mining at Upcoming Negotiations
The movement against deep sea mining is growing with the New Zealand government’s decision today to back a global moratorium on deep sea mining. The Greenpeace network is calling on…
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The Myth of Single-use Plastic Recycling
A shocking new Greenpeace report reveals that most types of single-use plastic — cannot be recycled in the United States.
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Circular Claims Fall Flat Again
A recent Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report projects that global plastic use and waste will nearly triple by 2060 with a meager increase in plastic recycling, resulting in a doubling of global plastic pollution. The United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) estimated that the volume of plastic waste in the U.S.…
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New Greenpeace Report: Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street—Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases
Paper, cardboard, and metals are all recycled at a high rate, but plastic continues to be trash Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular…
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What is happening with Alaska snow crabs and Maine lobsters?
Earlier this month, Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced that this year’s snow crab fishery is canceled, with CNN and others reporting that billions of the crabs had “disappeared.”…
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Greenpeace Slams Proposal from Business Advisory Group as Rollback of Transparency and Traceability in Seafood Supply Chains
A group of prominent US businesses, including Walmart, submitted a proposal to the US Government that would hide trade data used to trace labor abuses through the seafood supply chain.…
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Embedding Justice – An inward look into our transformational journey
Greenpeace has always been about people and the planet, and these same values apply to our organization internally. We are dedicated to people power, both internally and externally, and recognize…
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From Climate Denial to Democracy Denial: Big Oil Money is Polluting Politics and the Planet
With more than 70% of Americans concerned about the climate crisis, Big Oil CEOs stand to gain the most from drowning out our voices. That explains why the industry isn’t…
