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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In SEC filings released this morning, Lumber Liquidators revealed that the Department of Justice is contemplating criminal charges under the Lacey Act for importing illegally harvested wood. Lumber Liquidators’ stock value dropped by nearly 20 percent immediately following the news. Lumber Liquidators has been under federal investigation since September 2013, when the Environmental […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds yesterday’s release of the Implementation Plan for the U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking by the Departments of the Interior, Justice, and State. The Implementation Plan comes exactly one year after President Obama issued the National Strategy in response to the ongoing global wildlife trafficking crisis, and […]

EIA’s work in the Congo Basin involves collaboration with civil society, indigenous communities, and government to ensure that palm oil development in the region is conducted in a fair and sustainable way. The document below is a resource used in this collaboration. As developers are looking to the Congo Basin as the next hotspot for […]

As the international community heads towards a landmark climate change agreement at COP 21 in Paris, 2015 must also mark the year Parties to the Montreal Protocol launch formal negotiations on one of the largest, fastest and most cost-effective global mitigation measures to address short-termclimate change available – the phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Contact: Maggie […]

A Russian supplier to Lumber Liquidators convicted of organized crime.

By Avipsa Mahapatra, International Climate Policy Analyst Over the past few years my friends and family in India have heard me talking again and again about “phasing out hydrofluorocarbons under the Montreal Protocol.” But saying this is like speaking another language to them. So when they heard President Obama mention exactly those words in his […]