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LEGO Working With Shell, Everything Is Not Awesome

Greenpeace launched the campaign targeting LEGO last week, which flooded LEGO’s Facebook and twitter pages urging them to stop lending support to Shell.

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Greenpeace released an online film today to expose LEGO for promoting the controversial Shell brand on its toys. Shell has plans to drill for oil in the Arctic threatening the people and unique wildlife that live there. “Every company has a responsibility to choose its partners and suppliers ethically,” said Mel Evans, Arctic campaigner at

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Greenpeace Urges LEGO To End Shell Partnership And Save The Arctic

Shell’s Arctic program has faced fierce criticism since 2012. In that same period 16 million Shell-branded LEGO sets were sold or given away at petrol stations in 26 countries, making Shell a major contributor to LEGO’s global sales.

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Greenpeace launched a major new global campaign today targeting LEGO for putting sales above its commitment to the environment and children’s futures. This campaign will mobilize more than 5 million people to take creative action in six continents—Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, North America and South America. In a new report, Greenpeace urges

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Plastic Waste Causes $13 Billion In Damages To Marine Ecosystems Each Year

More than 30 percent of the natural capital costs of plastic are due to greenhouse gas emissions from raw material extraction and processing.

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Concern is growing over the threat that widespread plastic waste poses to marine life, with conservative estimates of the overall financial damage of plastics to marine ecosystems standing at $13 billion USD each year, according to two reports released on the opening day of the first UN Environment Assembly. The eleventh edition of the UN

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Bloomberg’s New Report Shows Why Waiting on Climate Action Is ‘Risky Business’

Released Tuesday morning, Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States contains the comprehensiveness and interactivity of the federal government’s National Climate Assessment, but centers on the economic risks presented by a warming planet, rising sea level and other climate factors.

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A new report from entrepreneur and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a committee of economists and former politicians explains why anything other than immediate action on climate change presents risky business. Released Tuesday morning, Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States contains the

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Report Exposes Companies That Dumped 206 Million Pounds Of Toxic Chemicals Into U.S. Waterways

Research from Environment America shows that 2012 was a bigger year for toxic chemical dumping than most of us could have imagined.

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Research from Environment America shows that 2012 was a bigger year for toxic chemical dumping than most of us could have imagined. Industrial facilities across the U.S. dumped more than 206 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 2012, according to the “Wasting Our Waterways” report. The figures about the nation, as a whole, are

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Groups Appeal To UN to Stop Water Cut Offs In Detroit And Restore Basic Human Rights

Over the last decade, Detroit residents have seen water rates rise by 119 percent. With unemployment rates at a record high and the poverty rate at about 40 percent, Detroit water bills are unaffordable to a significant portion of the population.

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In March 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) announced it would begin shutting off water service for 1,500 to 3,000 customers every week if their water bills were not paid, and yesterday, the city council approved an 8.7 percent water rate increase. According to a recent DWSD document, more than 80,000 residential households are

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New York Assembly Overwhelmingly Passes Fracking Moratorium

“We have heard from thousands of residents across the state about many issues associated with hydrofracking, and prudent leadership demands that we take our time to address all these concerns,” said New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

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New York’s general assembly passed a moratorium on fracking Monday with a sensible question in mind—why rush? “We have heard from thousands of residents across the state about many issues associated with hydrofracking, and prudent leadership demands that we take our time to address all these concerns,” said New York Assembly Speaker

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