After filing the lawsuit, "Anderson v SeaWorld"five years ago, two plaintiffs finally told their story in court earlier this month.
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According to Plastic Pollution Coalition, less than 9% of plastic products are actually recycled. And yet the companies targeted in the lawsuit increasingly rely on plastic packaging – so much so that it has become inescapable when you walk down the aisle of a grocery store.
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On behalf of International Marine Mammal Project and 3 other organizations, Earth Island Institute has filed a historic lawsuit, asking multimillion- and billion-dollar corporations to bear responsibility for the costs of preventing and cleaning up plastic pollution and to tell the truth about the recyclability of their plastic packaging.
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Trixie Concepcion, Director of the Asia Pacific office of Earth Island Institute’s Dolphin Safe Monitoring Project, and her staff in the Philippines work to ensure that tuna companies adhere to the international standards for Dolphin Safe tuna. As a team, they monitor hundreds of tuna companies every year to verify that the companies are fishing in a Dolphin Safe manner.The Philippines, like other countries, has experimented in keeping dolphins captive to make money from tourists. But one of the companies they challenged is fighting back, with a lawsuit known in environmental circles as a SLAPP lawsuit.
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In the Anderson v. SeaWorld lawsuit, three plaintiffs contend that SeaWorld's statements about the health and care of captive orcas are false and mislead the public and violate California consumer protection and fair business practices laws.
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On May 31st, 2019, the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court ruled that the permits for the captures of beluga whales and orcas, issued by the Russian state Fisheries Agency, were illegal.
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The Trump Administration is so gung-ho for oil drilling off our shores for the oil companies that they are ignoring the government shutdown in order to speed up processing of drilling and seismic testing offshore for oil.
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The International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute is suing the Trump Administration in order to get planning papers from Dept. of Interior about plan to lease 90% of US outer continental shelf for offshore oil drilling.
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The International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute has achieved some major goals in protecting whales and dolphins in 2018. Looking forward to continuing our efforts in the new year.
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