article thumbnail

Environmental Budget Cuts in NC: 2008-2018

Smith Enviorment

On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. 2008 Funding.

2008 40
article thumbnail

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 6

PA Environment Daily

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has disapproved an Act 2 Land Recycling Risk Assessment December 21 on remediation of soil and groundwater contamination at the American Refining Group, Inc.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

2010 122
article thumbnail

French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

2013 52
article thumbnail

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

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

2013 52
article thumbnail

Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

2013 52
article thumbnail

US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

2017 52