The Bering Sea is known to scientists and conservationists as one of the most remarkable places on Earth -- a home to sponges, coral, fish, crab, skates, sperm whales, orcas, Steller sea lions, and a vast array of other species all part of a delicate ecosystem extremely vulnerable to human...

Every Monday for the past month, North Carolina citizens from across the spectrum have gathered at the State House in Raleigh to protest the pro-corporate, anti-rights agenda of the legislature's newly elected Republicans. The top priority of these Republicans is to pass every law imaginable to wreck the environment and...

Dear Senator Carl Levin, Senator John McCain, Congressman Elijah Cummings and Congressman Darrell Issa:

Greenpeace has been watching with great interest the unfolding controversy over whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) singled out "tea party" groups for special scrutiny. We're pleased to see Attorney General Eric Holder takes this issue...

Duke Energy and government regulators have been hiding a not-so-little secret from the people of the Carolinas. Duke's Oconee nuclear power plant, three aged nuclear reactors 30 miles from Greenville, SC, is at risk of a meltdown should an upstream dam fail. If that were to happen, a...

Corporations want to work in secret. It's what they do, and why they have lawyers. In secret, they can spill, clearcut, burn, and otherwise destroy the environment and local communities while telling the world they're doing just the opposite. Shell Oil's legal team is currently working overtime to...

Nearly 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilled out of Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline into...

Greenpeace knows that the best way to fight corporate polluters is through collective action. From stopping dangerous coal plant pollution to cleaning up toxic spills, the only way to keep our communities and our children healthy is by speaking out in a big way. But if people are afraid to...

This Sunday, a new environmental movement will arrive in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people will join 350.org, the Sierra Club, and the Hip Hop Caucus' "Forward on Climate" rally to call out with one voice and demand Obama keep his promise to future generations.

I will be proud...

As the cleanup continues, the harsh light of...

Americans went into the voting booth yesterday with horrific images of the fallout from Superstorm Sandy fresh in their minds. Pictures of homes ripped from their moorings, stories of children whisked away by rushing waters, reports of elderly people trapped on top floors of buildings -- the true...

Governor Cuomo relies on Bradley J Field -- a climate skeptic -- to head New York's Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Mineral Resources. Unfortunately, Mr. Field has proven to be out of sync with the scientific community on the environmental issue with the greatest scientific consensus --...

A recent study funded in part by the Charles G. Koch Foundation supports existing scientific evidence that global climate change is happening and is primarily caused by humans. The study's lead author, Dr. Richard Muller, was a well-known climate skeptic who was "converted" by his own examination of global temperature...

The recent reporting from the Charleston Gazette and the Center for Public Integrity provides a sobering analysis of the dramatic resurgence of black lung disease. Only this time, the disease is being diagnosed in large numbers in younger miners and is progressing more quickly in those...

When was the last time you heard about Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something?

Recently, the Center for Public Integrity reported that on April 3, Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental...

Co-Authored by Phil Radford, Greenpeace and Sandy Buchanan, Ohio Citizen Action

Today, Duke...

Co-Authored by Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and Aaron Viles, Deputy Director of Gulf Restoration Network

The BP disaster turns two this week. Two years since the nation was reminded that offshore drilling is dirty, dangerous, and deadly. Two years since the slow-motion disaster began changing...

Yesterday, in a small courtroom in Alaska, David met Goliath once again. Greenpeace USA's small team of lawyers came face to face with representatives from Shell, the multinational oil company seeking one of the broadest legal injunctions ever sought against an entirely peaceful environmental group. The judge's decision will resonate...

Earlier this week, Edison International announced that they would shut down the Fisk and Crawford coal plants -- a victory for the books! After ten years of gritty and determined...

Right now, Greenpeace's new Rainbow Warrior, our flagship, is docked in Southport, NC -- smack in the center of Duke Energy's domain.

Our activists have just descended from the 400-ft smokestack of Progress's Asheville Generating Station and been arrested. Progress Energy and Duke...