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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. “I His reply ?

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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. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. So does fossil fuel combustion. Environmental Protection Agency. The town has two wells, one of which began exceeding the federal nitrate standard in 2020. He was 19 when he died. They typically use groundwater.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

Collectively they produced 294 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, ranking fifth nationally. Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking a mandatory review of federal drinking water standards, due in 2023. billion bushels.

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

Corp Watch

17, 2020, after Buncombe County Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a $27 million tax incentive for the manufacturing center, the group's website says. USA: Collins Aerospace parent Raytheon discloses criminal probe over financial accounting in defense business The Gazette | October 29, 2020 In a filing Tuesday with the U.S.

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15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Corp Watch

17, 2020, after Buncombe County Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a $27 million tax incentive for the manufacturing center, the group's website says. USA: Collins Aerospace parent Raytheon discloses criminal probe over financial accounting in defense business The Gazette | October 29, 2020 In a filing Tuesday with the U.S.