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Greenpeace ranks fashion firms on detox efforts
2015-03-19 13:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Greenpeace has launched its second "Detox Catwalk" - an online platform designed to assess fashion brands' records on removing toxic chemicals from the supply chain.
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Police break up anti-nuclear protest by Greenpeace in Paris
2015-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Police in Paris detained five Greenpeace activists on Monday after they dangled from a bridge and unfurled banners on the Seine River that call for cuts in nuclear power, the environmental group said. France has the world's highest reliance on nuclear power about two-thirds of its current energy production and parliament is going to debate nuclear power this week. The activists protested on a bridge near the National Assembly, parliament's lower house. The banners one floating on the water...
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Industry lobbyists weakened Europe air pollution rules, say Greenpeace
2015-03-05 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New limits on air pollution in Europe have been watered down because governments are allowing some of the worst polluters to help draw up the rules, according to a Greenpeace investigation. The Guardian has also learned that despite UK claims to the contrary, energy industry representatives repeatedly and forcefully pushed for weaker pollution limits at meetings in Brussels. As a result of ongoing lobbying, the proposed European Union standards on toxic emissions from coal plants will be less...
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Greenpeace to aid Nazca Lines inquiry
2014-12-19 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Greenpeace will co-operate with an investigation by a Peruvian court to determine responsibility for damage caused by activists at the Nazca Lines, the group's chief executive has said. Kumi Naidoo told reporters that the protest at the ancient site on 8 December had been conceived out of "positive intention" but that "there cannot be any defence for what happened". The Nazca Lines are huge figures scratched on the surface of the ground between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago, which are believed to have...
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Greenpeace Treads Over Historic Site, Apologizes to Peru
2014-12-12 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It's not hard to argue that the environmental activist group Greenpeace takes action with good intentions in mind. Their latest stunt, for instance, was intended to send a message about climate change to leaders and ministers at the ongoing UN climate talks in Peru. However, they treaded across a sacred and delicate world heritage site to do so, earning significant global backlash in the process. Before dawn on Monday, twenty Greenpeace activists from seven countries unfurled massive yellow letters...
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