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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 20102013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Shell Canada Products Ltd.: 2021 – present LNG Canada Development Inc. (a This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

Corp Watch

Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (October 1999).

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007).

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007).

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007).

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Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010). Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007).