Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012).

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. Abandoning Wells Without Plugging DEP issued 10 unconventional shale gas operators 20 notices of violation at 11 well pads during 2023 for abandoning wells without plugging them. .:

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Posted: December 24, 2023] PA Environment Digest North Branch Land Trust To Hold Annual Dinner May 1 Programs/Information -- PAcast: Santa’s Reindeer Cleared For Christmas Travel By PA Dept. 23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

2 Brown Bag Briefing On Fracking And PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- DEP 2024 Water Quality Report Shows 28,820 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (34%) - An Increase From 27,886 In 2022 [PaEN] [Posted: October 25, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the state Department of Health and DEP, with assistance from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, released a public health evaluation of long-term air sampling data in the vicinity of natural gas operations in Washington County. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The studies will provide a scientific basis for informed decision-making as governments, industry, and other stakeholders consider increased geothermal energy development. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. 21-1082 (D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Here are 68 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

National- $3.12 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Venting Gas, Spills, Plugging Mess [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond [PaEN] -- Gas Explosions -- PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

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