Environment

Hebei, a province located in northern China that surrounds Beijing, will offer monetary rewards for whistleblowers who report acts of illegal pollution, according to an August 25 Reuters article. A quarter of China’s steel is produced in Hebei, and the...

On August 6, the Senate unanimously passed the Pipes Act 2020 with an amendment to strengthen pipeline safety regulations and whistleblower protections. Methane leaks contribute the equivalent of over 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere annually,...

Environmental whistleblower Vasily Ryabinin risked his career and his family’s future in their city of Norilsk, Russia, to go public about a massive oil spill caused by Russian oil giant Nornickel. Ryabinin defied his employer Rosprirodnadzor, the Russian state environmental...

The men on the EPA’s wanted list didn’t kill anyone, but they could make a lot of people sick. They are accused of dumping mercury contaminated soil, smuggling ozone depleting freon into the US or covering up illegal cruise ship...

Brazilian scientists reported in November that 3,769 square miles of forest cover had been lost in a one year – the biggest decline in a decade. The New York Times reports that President Jair Bolsonaro “who has long argued that conservation...

A guest post and photos by Katarzyna Nowak. Nowak, a fellow at The Safina Center in New York, describes herself as a "wildlife conservation practitioner aspiring to bridge the science-policy-society interface." The zone north of 60 degrees latitude receives relatively little attention in the...

Tuesday is the deadline to register for the Thursday, June 13 webinar on the role of citizens in enforcing environmental law. From the Environmental Law Institute: Click here to register for the webinar: Collecting evidence of environmental crime Around the...

Caribbean Princess Princess Cruises “depends on the oceans. We are committed to environmental practices that set a high standard for excellence and responsibility and help preserve the marine environment.” Its “Planet Princess” web page describes how...

A Greek shipping company and its chief engineer were indicted Tuesday for witness tampering and falsifying records to hide the illegal discharge of waste oil into the sea. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the six-count indictment against Chartworld Shipping...

The New York Times was blunt in its series on crime at sea: “Few places on the planet are as lawless as the high seas, where egregious crimes are routinely committed with impunity.” Whistleblowers are key to exposing those crimes,...