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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action. billion in 2016 to $11.6

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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

It’s now being raised as a political issue. Last year the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to restrict large livestock farms to protect the state’s water, a rebuke to a 2011 state law that limited the DNR’s authority to regulate CAFOs. As a legal issue.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . are the frontline of an immense $1.1

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

Ground report: 37 days in, why Toyota Kirloskar workers in Bidadi continue to protest Haripriya Suresh & Shilpa Ranipeta | The News Minute | December 15, 2020 Nearly 3,500 workers have been protesting at the Toyota Kirloskar Motors Bidadi plant for the past 37 days. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell

Corp Watch

Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. billion pounds of ethylene a year.