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…
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…
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…
Spoliation, pollution et « climat de terreur » : l'édifiante enquàªte associative sur la plantation de palmiers. Après les enquàªtes journalistiques, un collectif d'associations dévoile trois ans d'enquàªte sur la Socapalm, la plus importante plantation de palmiers du Cameroun. Une…
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 quàªte…
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…
Lufthansa will launch the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger flights using bio-fuel in the first half of 2011. An A321 using IAE engines will fly between Hamburg and Frankfurt using a 50-50 bio-fuel/conventional fuel blend. The daily flights will begin…
Several of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies said they plan to tighten screening of physicians who promote their drugs after ProPublica reported last month that more than 250 of them had been sanctioned for misconduct. Eli Lilly and Co. said…
Telefonica is launching Nokia's green handsets, announced earlier this year, and now adapted exclusively for Spanish operator, Movistar, reports Ian Scales. The phones offer a range of 'sustainable' tweaks -Â ecological applications, less packaging, a high-efficiency phone charger and a…
Une association représentant des citoyens congolais a déposé aujourd’hui auprès d’un tribunal de Montréal une requàªte pour autorisation d’exercer un recours collectif contre la compagnie canadienne Anvil Mining Limited. Il est allégué que cette compagnie, en fournissant une assistance logistique,…
