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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

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In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

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Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday. HarperCollins, 1991). by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

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Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday. HarperCollins, 1991). by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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