Corporate Insistence On Single-Use Plastics & Protecting The Environment
Why are so many corporations pledging to reduce single-use plastics instead of eliminating them altogether now?
Why are so many corporations pledging to reduce single-use plastics instead of eliminating them altogether now?
This is the part two of a multi-article series on the connection between animal agriculture and various societal and environmental problems. This article covers animal agriculture’s connection to freshwater use, freshwater quality, water pollution violations, fishes and other sea animals, ocean hypoxia, and declining phytoplankton in the oceans.
Germany electric utility Greenpeace Energy has proposed a takeover bid for the lignite open-cast mines and power plants currently belonging to German electric utilities company RWE, to shut them down by 2025, and replace them with renewable energy projects such as wind and solar boasting a total output of 8.2 gigawatts.
The UK’s Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the UK government will set aside £60 million ($77 million) for the next clean energy contract auction due for spring of 2019 and that the government and the offshore wind industry are close to reaching a specific Sector Deal.
Three farmers and Greenpeace have sued the German government, alleging it is not doing enough to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals it set in 2007. Will German courts do what US courts refuse to do?
A federal judge has dismissed a racketeering lawsuit against Dutch group BankTrack alleging it engaged in eco-terrorism by daring to urge banks to fund Energy Transfer Partners and the Dakota Access pipeline. A similar dismissal order could be next for Greenpeace.
Apple, one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved (and reviled) technology companies, has this week launched a new “first-of-its-kind” clean energy investment fund intended to connect its Chinese suppliers with renewable energy sources.
After months of global protests and campaigning, global electronics manufacturing giant Samsung has announced this week that it intends to transition by 2020 to source 100% of its electricity needs from renewable energy sources across all its sites in the United States, Europe, and China.
Russia intends to bring two nuclear power plants floating on a barge to the Arctic to power oil exploration efforts. What could possibly go wrong?
Nestlé, one of the world’s largest providers of single use plastic bottles, says it is launching a new campaign to reduce the amount of plastic it contributes to the environment every year. Greenpeace says the new policy amounts to nothing more than greenwashing.