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James Michener’s Chesapeake Bay Was A+

Vermont Law

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. 1600s, but since then humans deforested the land, fished indiscriminately, farmed intensively, and the population grew. Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. Researchers at the. John Smith’s.

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JBS fires indigenous worker in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, for reporting precarious company buses, says union

Corp Watch

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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NY attorney general sues world's largest beef producer over methane emissions, climate commitments

Corp Watch

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. June 29, 2021).

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