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 of humpbacks washing up in New Jersey, New York, and Maryland recently is cause for alarm."
The reinstatement of the 2001 conservation measure on the Tongass National Forest is a huge win in the face of its rollback by the Trump administration
The House Oversight Committee report shows that Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP continue their decades-long campaign of roadblocking true, science-based climate solutions.
In response to Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer’s dirty permitting deal being removed from the NDAA, Greenpeace USA Chief Program Officer Tefere Gebre said: “The will of the people triumphed over Big Oil and the politicians they can buy."
The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Nestlé come in as the world’s top plastic polluters for five years running, according to Break Free From Plastic’s latest global brand audit report. The 2022 Brand Audit analyzes five years' worth of citizen science trash-collection data, exposing how corporate voluntary commitments are not effectively reducing these companies’ devastating environmental impacts. In response, activists around the world are calling for a Global Plastics Treaty that can provide legally-binding mechanisms and enforcement policies to effectively reduce the amount of plastic both produced and used by corporations.
Today, 12 members of The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Coalition of Action on Plastic Waste, including PepsiCo and Unilever, published a letter of intent addressed to suppliers, regulators, and investors expressing their demand to procure 800,000 tons of chemically recycled material per year by 2030, claiming that they are doing their part to end the plastics crisis. Those volumes are in addition to mechanically recycled materials demand needs.
2022 has seen record-breaking numbers of fires and deforestation
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