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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

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Last year the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to restrict large livestock farms to protect the state’s water, a rebuke to a 2011 state law that limited the DNR’s authority to regulate CAFOs. Milking parlor in Lenawee County.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

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They based their campaign on state law, the powerful Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), which gives citizens the right to protect all natural resources from “conduct” that is “likely to result in pollution, impairment, or destruction” from any source. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

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There have been more than 3,000 spills since 2005, with the number peaking in 2011 at 484. plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

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In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., It is the biggest shareholder and operator of the Yadana gas pipeline in Burma (now Myanmar) where the army was accused of forced labor and killing in the Tennaserim peninsula. Total to pay $2.9

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

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There have been more than 3,000 spills since 2005, with the number peaking in 2011 at 484. plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

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In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., It is the biggest shareholder and operator of the Yadana gas pipeline in Burma (now Myanmar) where the army was accused of forced labor and killing in the Tennaserim peninsula. Total to pay $2.9

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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

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In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., It is the biggest shareholder and operator of the Yadana gas pipeline in Burma (now Myanmar) where the army was accused of forced labor and killing in the Tennaserim peninsula. Total to pay $2.9

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