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Greenpeace trying hard to block London Heathrow expansion

London's Heathrow airport is already one of the largest and busiest airports in the world, but authorities are looking to expand. Of course, there is ample opposition to the airport's plan to add a third major runway, some of it coming from celebrities like Emma Thompson, who says, "I don't understand how any government remotely serious about committing to reversing climate change can even consider these ridiculous plans." Add Greenpeace to the list of expansion detractors. The eco-organization has purchased a plot of land that's directly in ... Read more →

New CO2 limits for 2015 instead?

Photo of the European Parliament published under the GNU Documentation License Ok, I have to admit that this is becoming quite the complicated story. The basics are that the European Parliament ...

Environmental organisations team up to reduce CO2 emissions

Friends of the Earth, Ecologistas en Acción, Greenpeace, Jóvenes Verdes and WWF/Adena have launched an online campaign demanding a drastic reduction of CO2 emission limits in Europe. ...

Greenpeace's SmiLE Project proved 70mpg was possible in 1995

High fuel efficiency is a hot topic today, but people have been tinkering with miserly vehicles for a long time. Take GreenPeace, which started working on the "SmILE-Project" in the mid '90s. ...

Flintstones arrested at EU protest over CO2 regulations

Greenpeace Everybody's favorite pre-historic family was arrested today in Brussels, Belgium. A group of protesters from Greenpeace dressed in Flintstones-style garb were taken into custody today as ...

Greenpeace: Carbon capture is not going to save our climate 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Greenpeace is quite unhappy with recent proposals to use carbon capture technology (CCT) at power plants that burn coal. According to the environmental group, CCT is like burying money. Their reasons? First and foremost, the technology is not yet 100 percent ready, and won't be until 2030. ...

Big luxury SUVs are "bulldozers" against the earth with biodiesel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We are not crazy: The image above is Greenpeace Argentina's way to protest against the country's efforts to produce soy-based biodiesel. The activist group took a Mercedes ML and a Porsche Cayenne and made them look like bulldozers to illustrate the idea that soy biodiesel destroys native forests ...

Switzerland forbids the oil sector to make any environmental claim 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Switzerland_forbids_the_oil_sector_to_make_any_environmental_claim'; First it was Norway, now it's Switzerland: The Loyalty Commission of Switzerland, an advertisement industry self-control agency, has agreed with a Greenpeace petition: from now on, no ...

Greenpeace says no to Neste's palm biodiesel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Greenpeace last week told the Finnish company Neste Oil to stop making biodiesel from Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil. Lennart Daléus, the general secretary of the Nordic section of Greenpeace, said that growing the palm trees is done in a way that, according to a short note on Newsroom ...



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