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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Shell Canada Products Ltd.: 2021 – present LNG Canada Development Inc. (a This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

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While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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The Art of Affect: Creative Expression as Personal Resistance and Resilience

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We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1). Reeves, K.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

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Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Raising Risk: Field Testing of Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States (U.S.

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

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Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Raising Risk: Field Testing of Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States (U.S.

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BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

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Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit by Loren C.

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

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Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart (Pantheon, 2002). Raising Risk: Field Testing of Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States (U.S.