The Reuters news organisation has just sullied its reputation with a disgraceful attack on the WHO's specialist body on cancer, the IARC, writes Claire Robinson. Resorting to smear, innuendo and anonymous critics, it relies heavily on discredited industry sources including tobacco defenders in its attempt to undermine IARC's view that glyphosate probably causes cancer.
… most of the criticisms of the IARC that she cites are from notorious pro-industry sources. … most of the criticisms of the IARC that she cites are from notorious pro-industry sources. …
When Shell decided to quit its Arctic oil exploration it cited 'insufficient quantities' of oil and gas, writes Louise Rouse. But that was not the whole story: what tipped the balance was a combination of investor discontent, reputational damage and public opposition on an unprecedented scale.
Shell's retreat from the Arctic - what tipped the scales? Louise Rouse Greenpeace Energydesk | 30th September 2014 Comment Energy Fossil Fuels Oil Corporations Finance Society USA Climate Change …
Can the cut-throat, speculative world of the stock market be used to hold businesses to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses? Chris Milton investigates for the Ecologist
Sustainable stock exchanges: a new choice for investors Chris Milton | 28th December 2010 News Stock Market Politics And Economics Finance Investors marketplace.jpg A Social Stock Exchange could …
With industry spinning that glyphosate is harmful to health, if at all, only with co-formulants like tallowamine, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency IARC has just released a Q&A document (below) stating that 'pure' glyphosate poses similar cancer and genotoxicity risks as its formulations. Banning particular co-formulants, as proposed by some EU countries, does not solve the problem.
WHO / IARC: glyphosate itself is the cancer and genotoxicity problem IARC | 11th March 2016 Comment Health Un Pesticides Toxics Regulation EU glyphosate-3d-vdw-cut-2.png With industry spinning that …
With the EU projected to source most of its 'renewable' energy by burning biomass, its policies are leading to widespread land-grabbing and forest destruction, writes Oliver Munnion. And because many of the biomass projects are purely speculative, 'sustainability standards' will do little or nothing to improve practice on the ground.
EU biofuel demand is driving land grabs in the Global South Oliver Munnion | 11th September 2014 Activism Forests Biofuels EU Brazil Ghana Mozambique Renewables eucalyptus suzano for biomass …
Oil giant BP is the UK's single biggest EU lobbyist, spending over £2 million reaching out to European policy makers in 2014, new figures show. But citing hard times, the company has dropped its controversial sponsorship of the London's Tate Galleries - and more such branding deals may bite the dust.
BP doubles EU lobby spend, drops Tate sponsorship Kyla Mandel The Ecologist | 14th March 2016 News Corporations Arts Finance Fossil Fuels Oil Pollution oil-coated dophin-cut.jpg Oil giant BP is …
Letters from an EPA toxicologist to the EPA official in charge of assessing whether glyphosate, the active ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, causes cancer, reveal accusations of 'staff intimidation' and 'political conniving games with the science' to favour pesticide corporations, writes Carey Gillam. Could this be a game-changer for cancer-suffering plaintiffs?
… longtime EPA toxicologist Marion Copley cites evidence from animal studies and writes: …
A decade and a half after conservationists wrung from the European Parliament a commitment to end the trade, the EU remains the largest importer of parrots in the world.
… Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites). One hundred and fifty-eight countries … that they were in real danger of extinction. Cites has failed in its primary aim of … Perhaps even more surprising is how Cites has managed to galvanise so little …
A new report by accountancy giant EY says the UK's Conservative government has sentenced renewable energy sector to 'death by a thousand cuts', writes Emma Howard, and left investors puzzled at inexplicable policy changes.
… are entering a really weird phase' The report cites the early end of subsidies for onshore … for the first time in a year. The report cites the launch of Barack Obama's Clean Power …
It was 28 years ago today that Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine ruptured and ignited, sending a massive plume of radiation across Europe. Jim Green assesses the scientific evidence for how many people died as a result of the catastrophe.
… UNSCEAR itself co-authored a report which cites an estimate from an international expert …
Three in one: EFSA set to re-licence glyphosate based on secret industry studies; Monsanto moves against IARC verdict that glyphosate is a 'probable carcinogen'; and new science shows that FDA principle of GMO 'substantial equivalence' is bunk.
GMO and glyphosate wars rage Oliver Tickell | 16th July 2015 News Corporations GMOs Health Toxics Regulation EU USA Science …
World Bank projects have left a worldwide trail of evictions, displacements, rapes, murders, forest destruction, greenhouse-gas-belching fossil fuel projects, and destruction of farmland and water sources, writes Pete Dolack. But even as internal reports admit the Bank's wrongdoing, it is asserting its immunity from legal action as terrorised communities seek redress in the courts.
… human rights abuses." The lawsuit filing cites "U.S. government sources" to allege that …
Ecuador is the latest country to tear up 'free trade' agreements that have so far cost the country $21 billion in damages awarded to foreign companies by 'corporate courts', and yielded next to nothing in return, writes Nick Dearden. So the outgoing President Correa did the only sensible thing: in one of his final executive acts this month, he scrapped 16 toxic trade and investment treaties.
Ecuador rips up 16 toxic trade treaties Nick Dearden Global Justice Now | 31st May 2017 News Trade Corporations EU US UK Finance Pollution Oil Ecuador ecuador-oily-hand-cut.jpg Ecuador is the latest …
A second legal challenge to the UK's proposed Hinkley C nuclear power plant in Somerset was launched this morning by ten renewable and municipal power suppliers in Germany and Austria, citing grave distortions to European energy markets.
Green energy suppliers launch Hinkley C nuclear challenge The Ecologist | 15th July 2015 News Nuclear Energy Renewables Law Finance UK EU cameron-hinkley-cut.jpg A second legal challenge to the UK's …
The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret' Corporate Europe Observatory | 22nd February 2016 News Health Law Regulation Corporations EU Science Toxics Farming …
EU proposal to ban the use of words like 'burger' to describe foods that don’t contain meat could prevent people reducing meat in their diet.
Lords beef with EU on 'burgers' Catherine Early | 26th July 2019 News Vegetarian Vegan Food Meat EU Climate Change Change Makers sainsburys_veggie_butcher.jpg EU proposal to ban the use of words like …
Biotech corporations have invested billions in a range of new 'GM 2.0' technologies designed to redesign the world's germplasm and create new generations of super-GMOs, writes Nina Holland. And powerful investors have no intention of letting tedious EU regulations get in the way of the profits they are now poised to reap - no matter what the laws actually say.
… the era of 'GM 2.0'. This pitch predictably cites key challenges we face today, notably …
Hinkley C's subsidy package may have won European Commission approval - but now it faces a National Audit Office 'value for money' investigation, following a demand from a powerful Parliamentary committee.
NAO investigates Hinkley C nuclear subsidies Terry Macalister The Guardian | 17th October 2014 News Nuclear Energy UK Politics Economics Finance hinkley-c-edf-cut.jpg Hinkley C's subsidy package may …
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Programme - TTIP - is a huge 'free trade' agreement under negotiation between the EU and the USA. Zac Goldsmith MP warned Parliament that it threatens to undermine key democratic principles.
No rubber stamp for the TTIP! Zac Goldsmith | 27th February 2014 Comment Trade EU US Economics zac-and-boris.png The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Programme - TTIP - is a huge 'free trade' …
As the IWC meeting begins today in Slovenia, the EU, its 28 member states and the United States, Australia, Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Mexico and Monaco, have expressed their opposition to Iceland's commercial whaling in a powerful diplomatic broadside.
… Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix I (with the exception of the …
There are two rules about the end costs of nuclear power, writes Ian Fairlie. It's far more than you ever knew. And whatever sum of money was ever set aside, it's nowhere near enough. Germany understands this. That's why it refused to let E.ON spin off its nuclear liabilities into a hands-off company. But the UK, it seems, has lost the ability to learn from its nuclear mistakes.
When the party's over ... the financial spectre at the end of nuclear power Dr Ian Fairlie | 1st October 2015 News Energy Nuclear Waste Radiation Finance sellafield-cut.jpg There are two rules about …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
Percy Schmeiser: the man that took on Monsanto Edward Goldsmith | 1st May 2004 News Monsanto Gm Seeds Canada Oilseed Rape Canola Crops Harvests Farming Legal Precedents GM Cases Action Agribusiness …