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Greenpeace Slams Apple's 'Dirty' iCloud

Rob Quinn — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:03:00 CDT

Apple is the worst offender among tech giants relying on "dirty energy" like coal to fuel gigantic data centers, according to a scathing Greenpeace report released this week. The report also slammed Amazon and Microsoft for excessive energy use, while praising Facebook, Google, and Yahoo for their efforts to use...

Shell Sues Greens Over Arctic Drilling

Rob Quinn — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:01:30 CST

Lawyers for Shell filed suit against more than a dozen environmental groups yesterday over Arctic drilling. The suit, an unusual preemptive legal strike, seeks to head off future lawsuits by having a federal court declare that Shell's Arctic oil spill response plan for upcoming drilling complies with the law, the...

Xena Actress Arrested After 3 Days on Oil Ship

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:25:05 CST

Lucy Lawless was arrested today in New Zealand along with five other Greenpeace members, three days after they boarded an oil-drilling ship that had been contracted by Shell. Lawless, aka Xena: Warrior Princess , occupied the vessel to protest its plan to do exploratory drilling off Alaska. "This chapter has ended,...

Xena Star Occupies Oil Ship

Rob Quinn — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:53:00 CST

Xena Warrior Princess star Lucy Lawless is back in battle, this time against oil drilling in the Arctic. Lawless and six other Greenpeace activists slipped past port security in New Zealand and boarded an Arctic-bound Shell drilling vessel. The activists, who have scaled a derrick on the ship, say they...

Greenpeace Raids French Nuclear Plant

Matt Cantor — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:51:51 CST

Four Greenpeace activists were arrested in France today after breaking into a nuclear power plant; some scaled one of the reactors and sat atop it. The activists, who aimed to reveal flaws in plant safety, entered the area at 5am. "Simple activists with peaceful intentions and few means managed to...

Energy Giant Guilty of Spying on Greenpeace

Rob Quinn — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:25:05 CST

French electricity giant EDF, the world's biggest operator of nuclear power plants, has been found guilty of spying on Greenpeace and fined $2 million. EDF, a frequent target of Greenpeace campaigns, hired a security agency to hack into the group's computers to gain information about its anti-nuclear activities, the Telegraph...

Greenpeace: Barbie's Killing Rainforests

Kevin Spak — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:53:39 CDT

Greenpeace has set its sights on a new eco-villain: Barbie. The group says it has traced packaging used by Mattel and other toy companies to protected Indonesian rainforests, and they’re taking it out on Mattel’s perpetually well-accessorized doll, Reuters reports. Activists dressed like Ken descended on Mattel’s headquarters yesterday, unfurling...

Emails Show BP Trying to Tamper With Oil Spill Studies

Kevin Spak — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:40:05 CDT

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP created a $500 million fund for independent research into the disaster. But in emails obtained by Greenpeace under the Freedom of Information Act, BP officials talk openly about how they can manipulate that research, the Guardian reports. “Can we ‘direct’...

Bush-Era FBI Put Liberal Activists on Terror List

Kevin Spak — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:21:28 CDT

The FBI investigated and monitored a variety of liberal activist groups without proper cause during the Bush Administration, the Justice Department concluded today. Though the Inspector General cleared the FBI of the most serious allegation against it—that it targeted the groups based on how they exercised their First Amendment...