Jonathan Moylan from Frontline Action for Coal, which issued the hoax statement, said environmental concerns had prompted the press release.

BBC: Australian miner Whitehaven Coal hit by hoax

Head over to the Council on Environmental Quality to see the full press release.

WHITEHOUSE: Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force Announced | The White House

If Vale takes a stake, it will likely face immediate negative press and attacks from environmental groups.

FORBES: Brazilian Mining Company Vale's Avatar Moment

Capacity prices were higher than last year due to retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations, according a PJM press release.

FORBES: Coal credits pressured by regulatory issues, coal-to-gas transitions

The Associated Press reported over the weekend that environmental lawyer Robert F.

WSJ: NY senators seek fracking delay to await key study

To find out, I tracked hundreds of articles in The Wall Street Journal for relevant press coverage on responsible and irresponsible environmental behavior by U.S. publicly-traded companies from 1980 to 2009.

FORBES: CSR Pays for Itself: Here's the Evidence

The long-ignored environmental nightmare in Nigeria also recently made the British press.

FORBES: BP, Nigeria And CSR

Bereciartua, P. (2005), Vulnerability to Global Environmental Changes in Argentina: Opportunities for upgrading regional water resources management strategies, IHP Technical document, in press.

UNESCO: Publications

The other was a much larger gathering of people from what we would now call civil society, or environmental campaign groups, who used the now familiar smorgasbord of marches, song, demonstrations and dialogue to press issues from pollution control to civil rights to vegetarianism.

BBC: Stockholm: Birth of the green generation