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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s and SSP1-2.6).

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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Cultural rights include the right to freedom for scientific research and creative activity, and the right to participate in cultural life.

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Critical Native American Water Rights Cases Come Before the Supreme Court: Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Legal Planet

In 2003, the Navajo Nation filed suit in federal court, claiming that the federal government had breached its trust obligations to the Nation by not granting it adequate water rights from the Colorado River system managed by the Department of the Interior.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003).

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

Healey Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Toyota Total Penalties $1,577,928,188 (June 10, 2021) Number of Records 42 Photo Gallery Image Toyota protest for dismissed workers photo Lennon Ying-Dah Wong Read More Image Toyota no.1 China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5 Kobe Steel, Toyota hit with U.S.

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003).

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003).