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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

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CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

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CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

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This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Congress adjusted the standards twice.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

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PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates. Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

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White House: President Biden met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology after a meeting of the council, which focused on efforts to improve monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate innovation in energy technology. View the White House readout. This butterfly is native to New Mexico. 28, 2022.

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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

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Both lawsuits ask the federal courts to strike down EPA’s approval of a “waiver” under section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act allowing California to adopt and enforce motor vehicle emission standards for greenhouse gasses more stringent than those EPA itself sets for the rest of the nation.