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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Environmental Budget Cuts in NC: 2008-2018

Smith Enviorment

On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. December 12, 2019.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. and Chevron Corp CVX.N and Chevron Corp CVX.N Exxon Mobil subsidiaries (via U.S.

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

Corp Watch

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. and Chevron Corp CVX.N and Chevron Corp CVX.N Exxon Mobil subsidiaries (via U.S.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Environmental Protection Agency. At the maximum, nitrate in Aurora is just below the federal standard, though the town did exceed the 10 parts per million (ppm) threshold in the summer of 2017, registering 11.4 But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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

Corp Watch

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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