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JBS fires indigenous worker in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, for reporting precarious company buses, says union

Corp Watch

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. The Meat Atlas, a non-profit publication that tracks the industry, estimates that JBS slaughters 42 million chickens, 170,000 cattle and 350,000 pigs every single week. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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NY attorney general sues world's largest beef producer over methane emissions, climate commitments

Corp Watch

JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest. The Meat Atlas, a non-profit publication that tracks the industry, estimates that JBS slaughters 42 million chickens, 170,000 cattle and 350,000 pigs every single week. SA) agreed to pay $52.5

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

This applies to food resources such as fish, habitats such as rainforests, cultural monuments as a mark of respect for their human interest. In 2016, similar figures suggested anything between 2,000 and 3,000 although the official figure was 1,800 (27). Conservation is not preservation, however, and the two are often mixed (3).

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. UN Human Rights Committee Views Adopted on Teitiota Communication , CCPR/C/127/D/2728/2016 (UN Human Rights Committee). Total (Nanterre District Court).

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Policy News: July 1, 2022

ESA

Supreme Court will hear Clean Water Act case in October 2023. The Supreme Court will hear this case, which pertains to the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the definition of the Waters of the U.S. New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest – Associated Press.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

Interior : Secretary Deb Haaland signed a public land order withdrawing 225,000 acres of land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from mining for the next twenty years. The Obama administration previously recommended a mining withdrawal in this area in 2016, but the Trump administration stopped that process.

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