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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. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.

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Brad Corson: A Climate Villain with a Lengthy Resume

Enviromental Defense

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil.

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Frack is Whack: Why Hydraulic Fracturing is Bad for People and the Planet

Vermont Law

The use of fracking to extract fossil fuels is a very controversial process due to the overwhelming impacts it has in human and environmental. wells that were fractured between 1940 and 2014, about one-third of those were fractured after. degradation. . malfunction.

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

Corp Watch

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. Corporation Repsol S.A. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. As for the two surveys of soil pollution, the first was of soil in general while the second focused on agricultural land. The first covered around 6.3

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. In 2014, leaders made a similar pledge in the New York Declaration on Forests that yielded few results. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy.

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

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.