As if BP needed more bad news following the Justice Department lawsuit filed against them yesterday, they now are under attack by WikiLeaks as well.  Yesterday WikiLeaks released more secret cables which revealed BP narrowly escaped another tragedy involving a drilling blowout.  Even worst, the cables show that BP actively tried to cover up the [...]

Google has decided to compete against Microsoft by donating to charities based on usage of their products. The company has released a new Google Chrome Extension named chrome for a cause extension. The extension would calculate the number of tabs you open in a day and at the end of the day, you get [...]

The chief executive of McDonald’s has described critics of the company who have tried to curtail the sale of Happy Meals aimed at children as “food police” and accused them of undermining parents in making decisions for their families. In an interview with the Financial Times, Jim Skinner responded to last [...]

Years of legal head-banging have turned to happy co-operation between two former environmental foes. Cement producer Lafarge Canada Inc. and the environmental group Lake Ontario Waterkeeper recently agreed on a plan to prevent toxic kiln dust from leaching into Bath Creek. Over the next three years, the company will spread a [...]

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX), today announced that it has developed a carbon footprint tool- the first of its kind in the building materials industry- that allows the company to measure the greenhouse gases emissions of its cement, ready-mix and aggregates products. The footprint tool considers a cradle-to-gate approach, [...]

Spoliation, pollution et « climat de terreur » : l’édifiante enquête associative sur la plantation de palmiers. Après les enquêtes journalistiques, un collectif d’associations dévoile trois ans d’enquête sur la Socapalm, la plus importante plantation de palmiers du Cameroun. Une société, contrôlée par les groupe Bolloré et Fabri, aux pratiques sociales et environnementales contestées. Rue89 [...]

Les mines de la République démocratique du Congo ont été une fois de plus au centre d’un colloque international organisé, du 1er au 3 décembre 2010 au Musée royal de Tervuren à Bruxelles, sous le thème : « La quête des ressources en Afrique centrale. Le secteur minier de la République [...]

Top U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are battling to limit a new federal law that could force them to report whether their store-brand goods contain minerals from war-torn Central Africa. The requirement, part of the Dodd-Frank financial law passed in July, aims to pressure companies to spurn so-called [...]