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Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). In the Niger River Delta, the company was responsible for an average of 2,976 spills a week between 1976 to 1991, on the land of the Ogoni people.

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Climate Villain Rich Kruger’s Appearance at a Parliamentary Committee Was Pure Greenwashing

Enviromental Defense

As the world continues to learn how oil and gas companies have used their vast resources to cause climate change, the tables are slowly turning. WHY WAS SUNCOR CEO RICH KRUGER CALLED TO APPEAR AT THE NATURAL RESOURCES PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE? Rich Kruger began working at Exxon in 1981 and was Vice President from 2008-2013.

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Environmental Rights in State Constitutions

Law Columbia

Most of these provisions were enacted in the early 1970s during that great period of environmental lawmaking, but they received relatively little attention until a 2013 decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Robinson Township v. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

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Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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PJM Interconnection Hears Testimony On Making Electricity Market Reforms To Address Nonperformance Of Natural Gas And Other Generators During Winter Storm Elliot; Transition To Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

The Natural Resources Defense Council issued a report in May outlining how the slow PJM Interconnection project queue process threatens the development of renewable energy in the PJM region. Read more here. Read more here.

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Busting Enbridge’s Line 5 Myths – Part 3: Indigenous sovereignty, Tribal rights, and consent – Bad River Band v. Enbridge

Enviromental Defense

Funding police to suppress water and land defence efforts , breaching natural aquifers that supply wetlands with groundwater, and circumventing Indigenous People’s tribal rights: some of the many ways Enbridge is working to “develop mutually beneficial relations with Indigenous communities.”. Reality: Between 1994 and 2013, the U.S.

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

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Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million in 2013. In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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