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Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. Exposure to ethylene oxide by breathing it in the air is associated with cancers of white blood cells, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as breast cancers. What can be done? Here’s how.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Pritzker , Nos.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S. In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 China fines Toyota 87.6

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The New EPA Car Rule Doesn’t Violate the Major Questions Doctrine

Legal Planet

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. percent of the MY 2016 fleet and were actually only 2 percent. Third, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Law both include billions of dollars relating to electric vehicles.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

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. In the U.S.

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Clean Power Plan: The Legal Battle Continues

The Energy Law Blog

Petitioners include thirty States, State agencies, and local government entities and more than one hundred private companies, cooperatives, and industry trade groups. The Clean Power Plan would affect every electricity user in the United States, from the largest manufacturing plant to the smallest home. The lawsuit, West Virginia v.

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

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. In the U.S.

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