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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. Corporation Repsol S.A. Image Image Products Oil and gas exploration and production, LNG trading and transportation, Oil refining, Petrochemistry Repsol S.A.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. So does fossil fuel combustion. He and Shari are active in the Pediatric Cancer Action Network, a grassroots advocacy and support group in Nebraska.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Mexican shopkeeper defeats Coke BBC | November 17, 2005 A small shopkeeper in Mexico City has won a David versus Goliath legal battle against the US drinks firm, Coca-Cola.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent. I show how Malthusians have used climate change to shift from claiming fossil fuels were scarce to claiming that the environment was scarce. Seven years later, the U.N. held its last Family Planning meeting.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

His parents, Gary and Shari Peters, documented six more kids in Aurora diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. A decade later, Jacob Peters’s death turns out to be much more than a dreadful heartbreak for a small town, farm country family.

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

The world’s nations, particularly the top burners of fossil fuels such as the United States, have yet to unify to prevent uncontrolled global warming. Such communities are often already overburdened with pollution associated with fossil fuel burning and proximity to polluting industries.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Better preparedness for heat waves, which could increase in a hotter world, will save lives.

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