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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING). Federal Government (via SAM).

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

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Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

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And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If pounds in 2006. In 2014, many of those EGLE staff members provided the technical details underlying Republican Gov. pounds per acre on average in 2016 from 16.2

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Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

Corp Watch

The company’s “bunker buster” bombs were also used by the Israeli military to target the homes of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2014. government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. The shrapnel was later identified as belonging to Raytheon. The study also cited incidents of planes being used for joy rides.