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UNDER FIRE RAINFOREST DESTROYER CAUGHT BREAKING PROMISES
A new Greenpeace investigation into the operations of Sinar Mas, one the most notorious destroyers of Indonesia’s rainforests, reveals how it is continuing to break its own environmental commitments on protecting forests and peatland.
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Homeland Security Committee Fails To Remove Crosshairs From The Nation’s Chemical Security Plants
Today, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted to allow high risk chemical plants to continue to use unsafe chemical processes and to not force chemical plants identified as high risk to evaluate safer chemical processes. Over 110 million Americans could remain at risk of chemical disasters for the next three years.
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Greenpeace Asks Facebook: As You Grow Toward a Billion Users, Will You Disclose Your Energy Plan?
Facebook announced yesterday that it has a population larger than the United States, Mexico, and Canada, combined, but it remains unknown what the popular social networking site will do in regard to its carbon footprint as it continues to expand. Greenpeace has challenged Facebook to commit to going coal free, but its new data center is powered by coal power, the United States’ biggest source of greenhouse gases.
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Greenpeace begins independent assessment of Gulf impacts with three-month ship tour
Following the news that for now the well has been capped and oil is no longer flowing into the Gulf, Greenpeace has announced that the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship, will be launching a three-month expedition to document the true impacts of the disaster on Gulf marine life as well as researching the unique environments and marine life that are at risk that will be impacted in the coming months. The ship will leave the week of August 9th from Tampa, Florida, and will visit the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas before approaching the well-head during the first one-month long leg, examining everything from the plankton on the surface to the subsurface plumes, to the deep sea corals on the floor of the Gulf.
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Chemical Disaster Prevention Legislation Introduced in Senate
Today, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced chemical plant security legislation that would eliminate catastrophic risks to millions of Americans, create thousands of new jobs and provide economic stimulus to local governments. The Lautenberg legislation is based on the compromise bill (H.R. 2868) adopted by the House of Representatives last November.
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