Press Releases
- Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger EIA Objection to MCC Aid to Tanzania
Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger EIA Objection to MCC Aid to Tanzania
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today appealed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Dana J. Hyde, the Chair and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)...
- Countries Closer to Global Agreement on Super Greenhouse Gases, EIA Comments
Countries Closer to Global Agreement on Super Greenhouse Gases, EIA Comments
The international community has moved one step closer to a deal on eliminating hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a series of super potent greenhouse gases, at the Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol...
- Operation Amazonas Targets Illegal Timber Trade in Peru
Operation Amazonas Targets Illegal Timber Trade in Peru
A joint operation carried out in Peru by INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization, and Peru Customs resulted in the seizure of illegal timber products worth USD 20.6 million. Authorities say, “This operation has opened our eyes to the ways that criminal groups...
- Chinese Criminal Syndicates and Corruption Behind Tanzania’s Elephant Meltdown
Chinese Criminal Syndicates and Corruption Behind Tanzania’s Elephant Meltdown
A new EIA report reveals that Chinese-led criminal gangs are conspiring with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory, a trade which has caused half of Tanzania’s elephants...
- Environmentalists Call for Moratorium on Arctic Shipping Increase to Protect Endangered Beluga
Environmentalists Call for Moratorium on Arctic Shipping Increase to Protect Endangered Beluga
Environmentalists today called on the eight Arctic nations of the Arctic Council to enact a ten-year moratorium on any increase in Arctic shipping to protect endangered beluga whales from the threat...
- EIA Congratulates EPA Rule to Limit Ozone Depleting Greenhouse Gas
EIA Congratulates EPA Rule to Limit Ozone Depleting Greenhouse Gas
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a landmark rulemaking today, which reduces the domestic production allowances for HCFC-22 at the lowest level ever and proposes a complete phase-out...
- Lumber Liquidators Lies to the Public
Lumber Liquidators Lies to the Public
In response to an inquiry by Canadian TV channel Global News that asked Lumber Liquidators if it had ever sold or continues to sell wood sourced illegally in the Russian...
- EIA Issues Statement Following UN Climate Summit
EIA Issues Statement Following UN Climate Summit
Today in New York City, over 130 world leaders including President Obama, announced climate commitments at the UN Global Climate Summit. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is pleased...
- Forest Governance and Indigenous Rights Key to Success of New Peru, Germany, Norway Partnership
Forest Governance and Indigenous Rights Key to Success of New Peru, Germany, Norway Partnership
Peru, Germany, and Norway entered into a partnership today that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, with Norway committing 300 million USD between 2014...
- U.S. Companies Announce Phase Down of Potent Greenhouse Gases at White House
U.S. Companies Announce Phase Down of Potent Greenhouse Gases at White House
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) attended a roundtable discussion at the White House today, at which a series of voluntary commitments came from...
- Governments and Retailers Must Act to Halt Iceland’s Slaughter of Endangered Fin Whales
Governments and Retailers Must Act to Halt Iceland’s Slaughter of Endangered Fin Whales
A new report today calls for the international community and vested commercial interests to take tough action to end Iceland’s ongoing slaughter...
- EIA Issues Statement on Visit by Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to Peru
EIA Issues Statement on Visit by Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to Peru
Today, officials of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and United States Department of State will visit Lima, Peru to discuss environmental rollbacks included in Law 30230...
- EIA Issues Statement Following President Humala’s Address to the Nation
EIA Issues Statement Following President Humala’s Address to the Nation
In his annual “Message to the Nation” Peruvian President Ollanta Humala avoided any reference to the environment. Delivered on Monday, the speech, which is similar to the State of the Union given by U.S. Presidents, offered President Humala...
- African Conservationists Call on Internet Retailer Rakuten to Cease All Sales of Elephant Ivory
African Conservationists Call on Internet Retailer Rakuten to Cease All Sales of Elephant Ivory
Conservationists from leading African organizations are appealing to internet retail giant Rakuten to immediately cease sales of elephant ivory products...
- EIA Applauds EPA Proposal to Ban Dangerous Greenhouse Gases
EIA Applauds EPA Proposal to Ban Dangerous Greenhouse Gases
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a landmark rulemaking today, which will pave the way for the elimination of a tier of the most climate-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) in...
- New Law in Peru Violates Free Trade Agreement with U.S.
New Law in Peru Violates Free Trade Agreement with U.S.
On July 3, the Peruvian Congress approved bill 3627, which has now become Law 30230, a suite of measures that rolls back environmental regulations...
- Environmental Rollbacks in Peru Threaten Obligations under U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement
Environmental Rollbacks in Peru Threaten Obligations under U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement
The Government of Peru is proposing a packet of economic measures and regulatory rollbacks that will cause significant harm to the environment and drastically diminish...
- Environmentalists Call for Trade Sanctions Against Mozambique for Rhino and Elephant Poaching
Environmentalists Call for Trade Sanctions Against Mozambique for Rhino and Elephant Poaching
Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) announced they are petitioning the Obama Administration to impose trade sanctions...
- EIA Lauds Bipartisan Senate Bill to Address Climate Change
EIA Lauds Bipartisan Senate Bill to Address Climate Change
U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) today announced plans to introduce the first bipartisan climate bill of 2014, calling for immediate...
- Japanese Firms Importing Illegal Russian Timber
Japanese Firms Importing Illegal Russian Timber
Significant quantities of illegal timber products from the forests of Siberia and the Russian Far East are flowing into Japan, according to a new report by the US-based nonprofit...
- Consumer Pressure Mounting for Implementation and Enforcement of the U.S. Lacey Act
Consumer Pressure Mounting for Implementation and Enforcement of the U.S. Lacey Act
A coalition of labor and environmental groups released a video today that illustrates how the Lacey Act, one of United States’ oldest and most successful conservation laws, addresses the urgent need to crack down on the global illegal...
- Kenyan Port Officials Seize Madagascar Rosewood Worth US$12 Million
Kenyan Port Officials Seize Madagascar Rosewood Worth US$12 Million
Kenyan authorities seized 34 containers of illegally-sourced rosewood from Madagascar at the port of Mombasa yesterday, the largest ever recorded seizure of its kind. Information obtained by the Environmental Investigation Agency...
- Further Questions Raised About Lumber Liquidators Sourcing Practices
Further Questions Raised About Lumber Liquidators Sourcing Practices
Following demonstrations at a supplier export facility in Brazil last week, activists staged a protest during Lumber Liquidators’ shareholder meeting today at their Toano, Virginia headquarters. The United States’ largest flooring retailer...
- Whale Advocates Bring Anti-Icelandic Whaling Message to NYC
Whale Advocates Bring Anti-Icelandic Whaling Message to NYC
Following a high profile "Don't buy from Icelandic whalers” ad campaign on the Boston public transit system in March and April, animal protection...
- Internet giant Rakuten pulls the plug on whale meat sales
Internet giant Rakuten pulls the plug on whale meat sales
Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them...