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NGO Attacks Pepsi's Palm Oil Sourcing and Links to Deforestation, Human Rights Abuses - 1 views

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    Rainforest Action Network continues to pressure PepsiCo about palm oil sourcing and its links to deforestation and human rights abuses. This time, the NGO culled export data to connect the company to what it calls "conflict palm oil."
Adriana Trujillo

Groups protest chemicals used in Apple's iPhone - Yahoo Finance - 0 views

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    Apple's labor practices are under attack by China Labor Watch and Green America, who contend the company makes its iPhones with a hazardous mix of chemicals that threaten the health of factory workers assembling the devices in China
Adriana Trujillo

E.P.A. Carbon Emissions Plan Could Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The Environmental Protection Agency's power plant emissions rules would save about 3,500 lives a year and have many other positive health effects, according to researchers at Syracuse and Harvard universities. The emissions reductions mandated by the rules would lead to 1,000 fewer heart attacks and other hospitalizations from air-pollution-related illness annually, the study found. 
Adriana Trujillo

With Dow, Coca-Cola, Ocean Conservancy seeks to cap plastic pollution | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Coca-Coca, Dow Chemical and a slew of other players are teaming up with the nonprofit giant to attack a problem that has been explored very little up to now. 
Adriana Trujillo

Green Building Wars Rage · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environme... - 0 views

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    Leaders of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and 16 other organizations sent an open letter urging the Green Building Initiative (GBI) to strengthen its Green Globes standard or state more explicitly that their standard is less rigorous than LEED or Living Building Challenge ones. The letter also urged GBI to stop attacking the credibility of LEED standards.
Adriana Trujillo

Greenpeace Launching Multi-Pronged Attack Against Thai Union for Abusive, Unsustainable... - 0 views

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    The world's largest canned tuna company, Thai Union Group (TU), has been connected to forced labor, human rights abuses, and environmental devastation. This week, Greenpeace launched a global campaign demanding that TU take urgent and far-reaching steps to clean up its act. To press the issue, Greenpeace's #JustTuna campaign asks consumers to sign a petition to tell brands that they will not buy unsustainable or unjust tuna.
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