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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last Friday, the justices granted review in Diamond Alternative Energy v.

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Science Silenced, Justice Denied: The Trump Administration’s Attack on NEJAC

Union of Concerned Scientists

As part of the Cumulative Impacts workgroup of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), it was exciting to work with and learn from some of the leading minds from community organizations, academia, state and municipal governments, nonprofits and the private sector.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No.

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Asbestos Use in the United States

Vermont Law

mortalities in 2004, and this doesn’t take into consideration deaths from other, less well-known illnesses caused by asbestos, such as laryngeal and ovarian cancers, and non-occupational exposures. Together these three diseases represented. 107,000 occupational asbestos exposure.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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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). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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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). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33