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Published by | By CorpWatch | Monday, November 20, 2000

THE HAGUE -- It is virtually an unspoken irony here that the climate change negotiations are taking place in Royal Dutch Shell's home town. Shell, one of the world's largest oil corporations, is responsible for a great deal of global warming gasses.

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Published by Associated Press | By Pierre-Antoine Souchard | Monday, November 20, 2000

In a landmark ruling, a French court on Monday ordered Yahoo! to block French Web users from its auction sites selling Nazi memorabilia.

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Published by | By CorpWatch | Sunday, November 19, 2000

THE HAGUE -- In sharp contrast to the formal climate negotiations, representatives of communities affected by the fossil fuel industry, countries threatened by global warming's rising tides and grassroots groups working for international environmental justice opened the First Climate Justice Summit today.

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Published by Associated Press | By Dirk Beveridge | Wednesday, November 15, 2000

President Clinton sought to nudge economic globalization forward Wednesday by calling for new world trade negotiations by 2001 -- a deadline developing nations are resisting.

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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Kenny Bruno | Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Shell wants you to believe that they're working to curb climate change. But Greenwash Guru Kenny Bruno takes a deeper look at Shell's latest ad campaign and finds they're full of hot air.

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Published by Environment News Service | By Frederick Noronha | Monday, November 13, 2000

Over a thousand environmental protesters today stormed police barricades in New Delhi, and marched up to the offices of the World Bank, demanding they be allowed to meet with visiting Bank president James Wolfensohn.

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Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian | By Martin A. Lee | Monday, November 13, 2000

During former defense secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief executive of Halliburton, Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a $34 million retirement package last July when he became the GOP's vice-presidential candidate

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Published by Reuters | By Daniel J. Wakin | Thursday, November 9, 2000

Vice President Al Gore's campaign announced an all-out effort today to contest Florida's presidential election result, demanding a recount by hand in four counties and promising to support legal challenges as the dispute grew increasingly bitter.

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