Press Releases
- United States Imposes Diplomatic Sanctions for Icelandic Whaling - Falls Short of Trade Sanctions
United States Imposes Diplomatic Sanctions for Icelandic Whaling - Falls Short of Trade Sanctions
Yesterday President Obama announced that the United States will not impose targeted trade sanctions to address Iceland’s commercial whaling...
- Rakuten – The world’s biggest online retailer of elephant ivory and whale meat
Rakuten – The world’s biggest online retailer of elephant ivory and whale meat
Japanese retail giant Rakuten is today exposed as the world’s biggest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products...
- The U.S. Takes Major First Step to Phase Down HFCs
The U.S. Takes Major First Step to Phase Down HFCs
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for announcing its intent to ban the use of a certain set of super greenhouse gases...
- U.S. Announces Ban on Import and Commercial Trade of Ivory to Halt Slaughter of Africa’s Elephants
U.S. Announces Ban on Import and Commercial Trade of Ivory to Halt Slaughter of Africa’s Elephants
Yesterday, the U.S. Administration announced its timely decision to enact a ban on the import and domestic commercial trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn...
- Ivory Trade Ban Essential to Save Elephants
Ivory Trade Ban Essential to Save Elephants
As world leaders gather in London on February 13 to attend a summit – hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and attended by Prince Charles and Prince William – to confront the escalating...
- U.S. Declares Iceland in Defiance of Global Trade Ban on Whale Products
U.S. Declares Iceland in Defiance of Global Trade Ban on Whale Products
Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...
- Major Win for the Climate: Voluntary Market Closes Door to HFC-23 Projects
Major Win for the Climate: Voluntary Market Closes Door to HFC-23 Projects
In a major win for the climate, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) – the world’s leading voluntary greenhouse gas program – has announced it will be turning...
- Congressman DeFazio highlights need to stop illegal rhino horn trade in Vietnam
Congressman DeFazio highlights need to stop illegal rhino horn trade in Vietnam
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds Congressman Peter DeFazio, Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources...
- India and Saudi Arabia block progress on near-term climate action at COP19
India and Saudi Arabia block progress on near-term climate action at COP19
As the annual international conference on climate change (“COP19”) draws to a close in Warsaw today, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) criticized India...
- US ivory crush sends strong signal to end devastating elephant ivory trade
US ivory crush sends strong signal to end devastating elephant ivory trade
The Environmental Investigation Agency commends the United States government’s inspiring step to destroy 5.4 tons of seized elephant ivory in Denver, Colorado. The stockpile represents 25 years of seizures of illegal ivory...
- Unsustainable: Japan’s small cetacean hunts gamble with species extinction and human health
Unsustainable: Japan’s small cetacean hunts gamble with species extinction and human health
More than one million whales, dolphins and porpoises have been slaughtered off Japan in the past 70 years – and new analysis by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) indicates these unsustainable hunts...
- Montreal Protocol makes progress on HFCs despite India’s failure to honor G20 promise
Montreal Protocol makes progress on HFCs despite India’s failure to honor G20 promise
The 25th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol ended in Bangkok today, following a week of heated negotiations. Progress towards addressing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) was made and the majority...
- Montreal Protocol offers historic chance for the climate
Montreal Protocol offers historic chance for the climate
The international community must pass an amendment to begin eliminating hydroflourocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol, said the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as...
- America’s largest supermarkets are destroying the climate
America’s largest supermarkets are destroying the climate
America’s largest supermarkets and retailers, including Walmart and Whole Foods, are failing to take meaningful steps to replace climate-damaging Hydroflourocarbons (HFCs)...
- Lumber Liquidators importing illegal hardwood flooring
Lumber Liquidators importing illegal hardwood flooring
Since the United States passed the 2008 amendments to the US Lacey Act, Lumber Liquidators has continued to purchase, through a Chinese supplier, millions of square feet of illegal wood...
- Madagascar’s transitional president threatens to sell illegal wood worth $5 billion
Madagascar’s transitional president threatens to sell illegal wood worth $5 billion
President of the High Transitional Authority of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, is expected to schedule a vote on an internal decree on Wednesday, October 2, to illegally sell the African nation’s...
- United States and India agree to explore using the Montreal Protocol to phase-down HFCs
United States and India agree to explore using the Montreal Protocol to phase-down HFCs
Prime Minister Singh and President Obama met today at the White House to discuss a range of issues, including the elimination of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) -- super greenhouse gases that...
- EIA statement responding to federal authorities executing search warrant of Lumber Liquidators
EIA statement responding to federal authorities executing search warrant of Lumber Liquidators
According to news sources, federal authorities from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in coordination with US Fish and Wildlife and Department of Justice, executed search warrants...
- Together the United States and India can curb super greenhouse gases
Together the United States and India can curb super greenhouse gases
Ahead of the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Singh and President Obama in Washington, D.C., the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) calls on the two...
- Poaching increases as South Africa pushes for legal rhino horn trade
Poaching increases as South Africa pushes for legal rhino horn trade
The poaching of rhinos in South Africa has increased by more than three rhinos a week on average since Environmental Minister Edna Molewa called for...
- Environmentalists urge Tanzania’s president to crack down on elephant poaching
Environmentalists urge Tanzania’s president to crack down on elephant poaching
Environmentalists are calling on President Kikwete to pledge to crack down on the elephant poaching epidemic and rampant illegal ivory trade in Tanzania while he’s in the United States...
- U.S. government commitment to protecting elephants welcomed by wildlife advocates
U.S. government commitment to protecting elephants welcomed by wildlife advocates
At the White House Forum to Counter Wildlife Trafficking, the U.S. Administration committed to destroying stockpiles of six tons of seized elephant ivory housed in Denver, Colorado...
- G20 takes landmark step in fight against super greenhouse gases
G20 takes landmark step in fight against super greenhouse gases
The 20 biggest world economies agreed today to use the resources of the Montreal Protocol to get rid of a significant group of super greenhouse gases (GHGs). The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)...
- SoftBank refuses to stop selling elephant, dolphin and whale products on Yahoo! Japan
SoftBank refuses to stop selling elephant, dolphin and whale products on Yahoo! Japan
Wildlife advocates expressed bitter disappointment today at the refusal of international conglomerate, SoftBank Corp., to ban advertisements for elephant ivory and whale...
- EIA welcomes Obama’s initiative to combat wildlife trafficking in Africa
EIA welcomes Obama’s initiative to combat wildlife trafficking in Africa
President Obama launched a new initiative today that seeks to combat poaching of rhinos and elephants and stem the illegal wildlife...