Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. For example, in 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by hurricane Irma and Maria. OECD (2022).

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

After hearing extensive expert testimony, the jury agreed that the carbon pollution emitted from the plant—equivalent to the 30 least polluting countries in the world combined—constituted an imminent threat excusing the protestors’ illegal actions. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. Common Dreams (March 10, 2017), [link].

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A 2017 study led by geographer Camilo Mora from the University of Hawaii found that around 30% of people around the world are already exposed to climatic conditions above this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year ( Nature Climate Change 7 501 ). Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 , 72–77 (2013). The economics of soil C sequestration and agricultural emissions abatement. Ecological Modelling 345 , 30–40 (2017). Gately, C.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. Ruffatto , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

In 2017, the upper-class residents of Cape Cod, for example, defeated an effort by a wind developer to build a 130-turbine farm, despite the developer having spent $100 million on the project. In 2013, the Obama administration gave the wind industry permission to kill condors, an endangered species.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

President Obama selected Gina McCarthy as EPA administrator in 2013. [2]. Pruitt was, at the time, suing the EPA over regulations aimed at curtailing emissions and proudly stated he was “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.”. [8]. The Senate confirmed this nomination in 2017. [9]. global warming.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In October 2017, RGGI, Inc. The statute established an aggressive goal of reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and an 80 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2050, across multiple sectors of the state’s economy. [50]. As of 2017, some $3.4 Of that amount, $1.2

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. A father and son say they faced daily racial epithets.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 16-42529 (Bankr.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

12] Though pastureland and cropland expanded 5 and 16 percent, between 1961 and 2017, the maximum extent of total agriculture land occurred in the 1990s, and declined significantly since then, led by a 4.5 The global output of chicken meat has grown fourteen-fold, from eight metric megatonnes to 109 metric megatonnes, between 1961 and 2017.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December 2017 and March 2018 because the environmental assessments for the lease sales failed to meet National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, including by failing to take a hard look at cumulative climate change impacts.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The court noted that the administrative record currently documented the Corps’ decision to reissue NWP 12 in 2017. The Court concluded that the precautionary principle and the right to a healthy environment require consideration of ethanol’s environmental risks, including its contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

Advances in attribution science since the last report was issued in 2013 have allowed experts to connect individual events to climate change with more certainty. Top Priorities : Conservation; drought and forest management to reduce carbon emissions and prevent wildfires. The world has already warmed 1.1 Agriculture.

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