Environment

Greenpeace activists crash Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting with call to end plastic pollution

20 Greenpeace Switzerland activists interrupted Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), on April 11st, by lining up in front of the shareholder audience, displaying banners that said “Nestlé stop single use” and “Nestlé, this is yours” while holding up...

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Administrator Wheeler visits Kentucky, Announces Approval of Kentucky’s Regional Haze Plan; Awards Kentucky $1.17 million grant to cleanup leaking underground storage tanks

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler visited the Blue Grass State on Friday to make several environmental announcements and participated in a food waste recovery event and an agriculture forum.

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Trump EPA Targets Washington State Clean Water Standards

A coalition of environmental and fishing organizations denounce the Trump administration’s latest effort to dismantle laws that protect clean water and public health. Without giving notice to Tribes, water quality advocates, citizens, or fishing...

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Earthjustice Condemns Approval of Former Oil and Gas Lobbyist Bernhardt to Lead Department of The Interior

n Apr. 11, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Secretary of the Interior. In so doing, the Senate has recklessly greenlit a man who has devoted his career to advancing the interests of the nation’s worst corporate polluters, including...

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