Nucor, the largest producer of steel in the U.S., takes great pains to present a “green” image. Nucor’s website is full of oak trees and pastoral scenes next to the tag line “Nucor: It’s Our Nature.”
However, since 2010, Nucor has given at least $500,000 to theHeartland Institute, a right wing corporate front group that attacks climate change science and scientists. According to Heartland’s own fundraising documents, Nucor’s contributions were earmarked specifically for attacking climate science and environmental regulations. Continue reading →
Christopher Monckton, well known for his wacky behavior attempting to deny the scientific realities of climate change, has now moved on to look into the conspiracy theory around whether US president Barack Obama was actually born in the United States!
Monckton, decked out in an American flag shirt, fire arm on his hip and a cowboy hat, tells the interviewer that:
My purpose in being here [in Arizona] is to have a further look into whether the president of the United States is the president of the United States. Now you might say, what has this got to do with someone from Britain… I am here because I am curious. As a peer of the realm I am allowed to stick my long aristocratic nose into anything I want to stick it in.
Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Here is the video:
Monckton recently spoke at the Heartland Institute’s climate denier conference. As part of that conference, an outrageous ad campaign ran by Heartland just prior to the conference equated anyone who believed in climate change to Osama Bin Laden, the Unabomber and the mass-murderer Charles Manson.
As a video producer for Greenpeace’s oceans campaign, I enjoy finding new and creative ways that visually bring the oceans into people’s homes. Oftentimes, I am inspired when other filmmakers and artists take up this challenge as well, and when my colleague John Hocevar forwarded me this video produced by a young filmmaker named Noah Goldstein, I was inspired to share it with the Greenpeace family. Take a look at his PSA here:
Noah’s video reminded me of Greenpeace’s Defending Our Oceans expedition, which traveled throughout the Pacific in 2006, highlighting the effect that plastic and trash have on marine life. Here is a picture we took of the trash that washes up on the shores of Hawaii during our expedition:
Thank you Noah for your inspiring video. The oceans feel a bit closer to home because of it.
P.S. You may have noticed that Noah used a plastic bag from Safeway for his PSA. Safeway recently ranked #1 on Greenpeace’s Carting Away the Oceans Report for supporting policies that help protect the health of our oceans. If you want to see the positive work that Safeway is doing to help protect the world’s oceans, I recommend you visit greenpeace.org/seafood and check out our report.
Our investigation team found KFC has been using rainforest fiber in their packaging in the UK, China and Indonesia and that they have been using paper supplied by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) – the same company that Greenpeace exposed this February for having illegal timber in their supply chain. Continue reading →
Yesterday was a dramatic day here on board the Rainbow Warrior and in the capital of Brazil too. Our ten day blockade was suspended to give space for a meeting in the capital which we hoped would be an important step towards cleaning up the pig iron trade and stopping slave labor and deforestation from entering the supply chain of big car companies like GM and Ford. Continue reading →
PHOTO: Discharge from a factory trawler in the Bering Sea.
by George Pletnikoff
Recently the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) passed a motion to begin a new review of the available science relating to Pribilof and Zhemchug Canyons (Canyons) of the Bering Sea shelf, and to work on a process to consider new protections for these areas. These two canyons are the largest underwater canyons in the world. From the Tribal Community perspective, we believe this to be a very hopeful development from a Council process that has historically prioritized the interests of the large industrialized commercial fishing companies. Continue reading →
I’ve written a few blogs since I’ve been on the Rainbow Warrior, but my time in Brazil has given me enough material for thousands more. I worked as a journalist before Greenpeace and that is how I have approached this trip, trying to tell you the stories that happen every day in this magical country and do some justice to the people who live in it. Continue reading →
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding a public hearing today in Washington DC on the first-ever rules to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. It’s a popular rule, and EPA has already heard a lot about it: over a million comments supporting the rule were delivered to EPA last week.
But this is DC, so not everyone is thrilled. Scott Segal, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, will be testifying on behalf of coal interests at the EPA hearing. When lobbying against clean air rules like the carbon pollution standard or mercury air toxics standard, Segal likes to use the title of director of the “Electric Reliability Coordinating Council” (ERCC); I suppose it sounds better than coal lobbyist. But what exactly is the ERCC? When he wrote a letter requesting a meeting about the carbon pollution rule with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Segal claimed that “ERCC is a group of power-generating companies.” But OMB meeting records reveal that the only lobbyist that joined ERCC for that meeting was Arch Coal’s Vice President of Government Affairs, Tom Altmeyer. Continue reading →
Post Authored by Gary Cook, Greenpeace International
Apple has made a bold claim to make all three of its data centers “coal free” and has doubled the amount of solar energy powering its data center in North Carolina. Apple’s customers certainly appreciate boldness, and will love the ambition to be “coal free.”
“All three of our data centers will be coal free, which is an industry first for anybody of our size,” Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer said last Thursday when announcing that the company is doubling the amount of solar energy powering its data center in North Carolina.
This is a clear sign that Apple is listening to the 220,000 customers who have asked for a clean iCloud. Apple now needs to show those customers how it will turn that rhetoric into reality, with further action and changes to its plans.
Sadly, KFC executives have responded by putting a big bucket of denial on their heads.
The company first said that 60% of their packaging in the US comes from “sustainable” sources. Then, they said it was 80%. Hmmm. Then, they started to claim that they don’t buy from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) in the UK or US.
There are so many things wrong with this statements, we’re going to have to take them one by one. Continue reading →
