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An unusual coalition has launched a campaign against the increasingly aggressive push to use the International Telecommunications Union to regulate the internet.

Let’s focus on the hypocrisy of a man who once listed “litigation” as a hobby in his Who’s Who profile.

A proposal to use normal corporate practices against the coal mining industry has apparently outraged conservative media outlets.

Crikey readers have their say.

Greenpeace’s destruction of a GM wheat trial was less about denialism about GM as the disastrous economic potential of contamination.

Global consultancy giant McKinsey’s response to serious allegations made by Greenpeace and the Rainforest Foundation reported in Crikey last month has so far been conspicuously low key, writes campaigner and commentator David Ritter.

The Greenpeace campaign against ANZ raises an interesting question: Is there a responsibility on bankers to become society’s police when politicians fail to act? asks Climate Spectator’s Giles Parkinson.

The reason why Australian kids eat GM food without their parents knowing it goes back to a decision by the Howard government in 2000, and the apparent impossibility of guaranteeing GM-free food sources.

Australian wheat farmers may soon have no choice but to grow genetically modified seed, say anti-GM campaigners concerned by wheat giant Monsanto’s move into the local industry. And while industry group WA Farmers welcome the move, they also acknowledge that there must be some kind of guarantee that the “interests of Australia’s growers are going to be taken into account.”

Greenpeace has released an extensive expose on oil industry kingpins David and Charles Koch, who it says have quietly pumped $50 million into “climate-denial front groups”.

Forget renewable energy or gas: our states are embracing coal-fired power more enthusiastically than ever before.

Tony Abbott will rally a “green army” to save the environment, but his anointed generals say it will be powerless in the face of climate change inaction.

The protesters who expect to be arrested this weekend in the campaign to close down Hazelwood power station may break the law, but they have justice on their side.

Here is the analysis of the PIF from Shirley Atatagi - climate political advisor for Greenpeace in the Pacific.

Greenpeace has released three very clever and creative videos attacking Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo for using toxic substances in their video game consoles, turning their scraps into spokespeople against the companies.

The world’s responses to environmental issues make more sense if you think about the world as just one, big dysfunctional family, Greenpeace bloggers write.