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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. References.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola.

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UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

Corp Watch

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola.

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

For instance, while Hurricane Katrina took 1,400 lives in the US in 2005, Cyclone Nargis in the Bay of Bengal made landfall in Myanmar in 2008 and killed 140,000 people—100 times more people than Katrina. People perishing by heat or smoke one by one in the privacy of their homes or in the sterility of hospitals is relatively invisible.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet as acting administrator of NOAA. filed Sept.

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