Wal-Mart announced plans Wednesday to donate $2 billion over five years to food banks and hunger relief organizations, one of the largest charitable efforts that the nation’s largest grocer has undertaken. The Bentonville, Ark.-based chain said it will give more than 1.1 billion pounds of food — from packaged goods to fresh [...]

Areva extrait de l’uranium au Nord du Niger, autour des villes d’Arlit et d’Akokan, depuis 40 ans. Greenpeace a pu accéder à certaines zones d’extraction minière en novembre dernier pour prélever des échantillons de sol, d’eau et d’air. La CRIIRAD, laboratoire indépendant, les a ensuite analysés en France. Résultat : la radioactivité dans ces zones [...]

NEW ORLEANS – A BP shareholder has filed suit against the corporation’s top executives because of the offshore rig disaster that has led to the growing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Filed in federal court in New Orleans on Friday, the lawsuit by Pennsylvania resident Katherine Firpo accuses Anthony B. Hayward, the chief [...]

Hewlett-Packard is running into quite a bit of trouble abroad these days. First, allegations of bribery in Russia, and now claims of customs evasion in India. That country’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence this week claimed that HP ducked some $322 million in customs duties by undervaluing shipments of computers, printers, [...]

The following news items have been sent to Covalence by Amigos da Terra РAmaz̫nia Brasileira:
Letter to GDF Suez (French)
Letter to GDF Suez (Portuguese) | Annex
Un projet hydroélectrique de la multinationale française GDF Suez met en danger les dernières tribus isolées d’Amazonie | Le Monde
GDF Suez convoite l’or bleu de l’Amazone | Le Soir
En Amazonie, [...]