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In Memoriam: Joanne Denworth, Environmental Leader And Attorney

PA Environment Daily

On March 1, 2024, Joanne Denworth, 85, died of Alzheimer's disease. In 2003, she was appointed by Gov. She has been an effective advocate for environmental progress who never lost sight of her goal of protecting and improving the environment whether working in or out of government.

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World Heritage Committee Ignores UNESCO Recommendation to List Venice as Endangered

Union of Concerned Scientists

A discussion about whether to list Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” will be on the agenda for the 2024 meeting of the committee. It was a step too far for the Committee which has never yet put a World Heritage site threatened by climate change on the endangered list. Part of the MOSE flood barrier under construction.

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

Corp Watch

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance Euronews PaulaR Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:18 Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Read more Eleanor Butler The German pharmaceutical group sees annual sales drop as its CEO admits the firm has four challenges that "urgently must be addressed". Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING).

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

Corp Watch

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating by Jeffrey M. Books, 2003). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM).

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta SOMO PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:21 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Read more Audrey Gaughran Shell cannot be allowed to divest from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure.

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86