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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Fifth District Holds Issue Exhaustion Not Required Where Agency Gave No Notice of Intent To Rely On CEQA Exemption Prior to Hearing, And Existing Facilities Categorical Exemption Does Not Apply to Unlined Landfills As A Matter of Law

CEQA Developments

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” Existing Facilities Exemption Did Not Apply As A Matter of Law. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek

PA Environment Daily

The Pennsylvania-based natural gas producer is building a water withdrawal point on the stream and laying a 20-inch pipeline across it to connect up to 80 fracked gas wells that will be developed on mountaintops on opposite sides of the stream in Loyalsock State Forest. By law, its water quality must be “maintained and protected.”

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Amid Extreme Heat and Drought, Line 3 Pipeline Construction Puts Water At Risk

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Enbridge needed to get a permit from the state’s Department of Natural Resources to pump water out of the construction trench. The suit builds off of a 2018 law, passed by the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, that gave inherent legal rights to wild rice. Water was polluted in 12 of the 19 waterways.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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