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Allegations of extensive sexual abuse at Kenyan offsetting project used by Shell and Netflix

Corp Watch

Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

Law Columbia

at the level of an individual animal) contradicts both the conservation purpose of the ESA and the plain meaning of what qualifies as a “reasonably certain” effect. This kind of closed loop, circular reasoning is inappropriate when addressing the impacts of a massive fossil fuel project. See Nat’l Wildlife Fed’n v.

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Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

CEQA Developments

acres of commercial use on a 775-acre portion of the West Parcel and withdraw those lands from the TPZ zone, while designating the entire East Parcel as Forest and TPZ; upon approval, real parties would sell or restrict the East Parcel for conservation purposes in perpetuity. acres of commercial uses. City of Newport Beach (2017) 2 Cal.5th

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Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

Environmental Progress

Conservation biologists Robert H. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says 6 percent of species are critically endangered, 9 percent are endangered, and 12 percent are vulnerable to becoming endangered. Some conservationists say the erroneous claims of a sixth mass extinction undermine conservation efforts. “To

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

In reality I debunk the unscientific claim that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction,” and make the case that our conservation concern should be focused on protecting and expanding habitat and the number of wild animals. The problem lay in overloading systems and causing them to collapse.”.

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Snopes' Alex Kasprak Makes 17 False And Misleading Claims About Apocalypse Never and Misrepresents the Best-available Science

Environmental Progress

Kasprak misinterprets my inclusion of the fact that fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 as my somehow challenging the severity of climate change, but I wasn’t, and indeed had made clear that it was a list of “some facts few people know” and not about climate change.