New report urges ‘Dirty Dozen’ to replace HFCs WASHINGTON, D.C. – America’s largest supermarkets and retailers, including Walmart and Whole Foods, are failing to take meaningful steps to replace climate-damaging Hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), according to a new report released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). HFCs are super greenhouse gases with global warming potential hundreds […]
EIA’s new investigative video details the extent and nature of illegal logging in the Russian Far East (RFE) and tracks illegally harvested valuable hardwoods across the border into China, through factories and warehouses, to its ultimate destination in showrooms around the world. It is then purchased by consumers unaware of the devastating effects on the […]
EIA’s new investigative video details the extent and nature of illegal logging in the Russian Far East (RFE) and tracks illegally harvested valuable hardwoods across the border into China, through factories and warehouses, to its ultimate destination in showrooms around the world. It is then purchased by consumers unaware of the devastating effects on […]
New report reveals largest flooring retailer is fueling Russia’s illegal logging crisis and endangering Siberian Tigers WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since the United States passed the 2008 amendments to the US Lacey Act, Lumber Liquidators has continued to purchase, through a Chinese supplier, millions of square feet of illegal wood originating in the Russian Far East, […]
A new EIA investigative report reveals the largest flooring retailer in the United States is fueling Russia’s illegal logging crisis and endangering Siberian Tigers. Liquidating the Forests: Hardwood Flooring, Organized Crime, and the World’s Last Siberian Tigers reveals that demand for hardwood flooring and furniture in the United States, European Union, Japan, and China is […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 9, 2013 Contact: Trey Pollard (202) 495-3058 Sierra Club Statement on New Evidence of Illegal Logging and Trade WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Investigation Agency is presenting striking new evidence demonstrating the extent and complexity of the illegal timber trade, and the continued need to address this urgent problem. Illegal […]