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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

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million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T T accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles. China fines Toyota 87.6

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

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Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

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Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

When proposing a new regulation or investment project, they often have to present a regulatory impact analysis showing that its environmental benefits outweigh the financial costs. If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort. to 2C is greater than from 0.5C Establishing the true cost of carbon emissions.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

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Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.