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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

It’s now being raised as a political issue. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. The petition asserts that because every CAFO discharges polluting wastes EPA has the authority and duty to require them to operate under wastewater permits. As a legal issue. As a legislative issue.”.

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Why Can’t We All Get Along On The Colorado River?

Legal Planet

In 2003, Interior Secretary Gale Norton – not known as an environmentalist – found that the Imperial Irrigation District was wasting water and cut back on their allotment. Given my politics, I often like Paul Krugman, and I find him good because he actually talks about data. Maybe that is a better way. Or maybe not.

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Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  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.

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

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  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.

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

Corp Watch

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  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.

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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards

PA Environment Daily

The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. This industry has been protected by politicians that continue to allow it to literally dump their waste and responsibilities on taxpayers to clean up. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule Must Respond to Emerging Legal Risks

Law Columbia

Nebraska , the Court relied on the MQD to determine that the Biden Administration could not forgive $430 billion of federal student loan debt under a 2003 Act that had not been the basis for such a sweeping program before. And in the Fifth Circuit’s Texas v.