Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Coal also emits other air pollution factors such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter… All this causes smog and soot which in turn cause asthma, cancers of all sorts, cardiovascular diseases… Which brings us to its health effects: coal is a mass murderer and is responsible for immense suffering.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

. -- Bursts Of Intense Natural Gas Emissions From Pigging Unit: On December 27, CNX Gas Co LLC’s Oak Springs stand-alone pig launcher/receiver along Farmer Lane in South Franklin Township, Washington County released bursts of dangerous methane emissions into the air around homes 1,500 feet away for over an hour.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Several provisions – a few of which are directly available to local governments – can additionally help address local air pollution and other inequitable impacts to vulnerable communities. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. Second, $11.97

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AUGUST 23, 2016

These issues range from potential water contamination, air pollution, noise, dust, truck traffic, groundwater spills, methane emission leaks, and even earthquakes. (fracking) to extract natural gas from shale rock formations deep within the earth has raised many public health and environmental issues in the past few years.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2023

An aerial view of the Suncor oil sands extraction facility on the banks of the Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, in 2009. Scientists say contaminants found at the bottom of lakes in Alberta are from air pollutants from the facilities responsible for producing and processing tar sands oil. Oil and Water Don’t Mix Water is life.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. Meanwhile, Lazard, a leading financial advisory and asset management firm, reports that wind power costs were down 66 percent from 2009 to 2016. Biking could solve or help solve a laundry list of issues such as: 1. Crumbling infrastructure in the US ; 2.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. According to Background Levels of Elements in China’s Soil , in 1990 average cadmium levels in China’s soil were 0.097 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) – very close to the background level. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution. But after 2009, the trends began to diverge.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

And near the end of Bush’s term, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gases under a 1970 air pollution law. Within the US, state and EPA regulation dominated, while international negotiations took a new turn in the 2009 Copenhagen agreement. And indeed, a major climate bill did pass the House.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. The West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said gases that fuel global warming “fit well within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of ‘air pollutant.’” EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. There is now a 99.9

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JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. What Do Communities Experience Now, what's a community's experience?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In 2009, leaking natural gas lines at the Pivik School forced the school to close temporarily and activities were canceled. “The well is located on elementary school grounds behind the the school next to sports a field. A leak was detected on the well head and immediately fixed by operator personnel on site.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This contamination led to multiple Dimock residents suffering from impacts to their own personal water supplies, including the explosion of Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well in January 2009.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

And maybe the stars won’t actually come in alignment again for major legislation in the next eight years — after all, we’ve gone thirteen years since the last time we got close to passing anything, in 2009. It’s a big gamble with a very high price in terms of delay even if we win the bet. The moral of the story.

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JULY 29, 2020

In 2009, Cambridge physicist David MacKay showed that providing energy to the UK with 100 percent renewables would require a greater area than the landmass of the entire country. Those technologies and others allowed conventional air pollutants to peak in developed nations the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the US uses just 0.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Based on these assurances and promises to “take all steps necessary to abate and remediate” any harms they did cause, Bryan Latkanich signed a gas lease agreement with Chevron on December 7, 2009. The following is the story of Bryan Latkanich and his family, based on a November 15, 2022 interview.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In its legislative findings, which remain in air quality statutes today , Congress justified air pollution regulation because “the growth of the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization, industrial development, and the increasing use of motor vehicles, has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfare.”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2022

We inhale or ingest tiny, invisible plastic fibers floating in the air around us, fibers shed by our own clothes, carpets, and upholstery, etc. We know that microplastics damage human cells in the laboratory, and air pollution particles already enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year. first began.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2008–2009, IDF damaged one-third of Gaza’s farmland. The conflict in Gaza has led to a significant increase in air pollution, impacting not just residents but also the environment at large.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. AB 32 directed the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s air pollution regulator, to implement a cap-and-trade program, which went into effect in 2013. [51].

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Wastewater can also have various heavy metals and radioactive materials present that can harm health. Health exposures can also occur from spills or leaks.

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