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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 Apparently Congress did not relish the task of periodically resetting the standards itself The 1990 Amendments authorized EPA to set standards for 2004 and beyond. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. These are called Tier 1 standards. fleetwide ceiling of 0.07

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

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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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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

Corp Watch

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say

Corp Watch

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Shell faces shareholder rebellion over climate activist resolution

Corp Watch

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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

Corp Watch

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.