2017 Fossil Fuels Pollution Control 
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
While some who drive past these refineries don’t have to live near them or work in them, those who do can be harmed by the well-documented effects of refinery pollution on human health. The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century.
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Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
So does fossil fuel combustion. At the maximum, nitrate in Aurora is just below the federal standard, though the town did exceed the 10 parts per million (ppm) threshold in the summer of 2017, registering 11.4 But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s
Circle of Blue
JULY 12, 2022
The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. Steel invests $150 million in a fuel production plant in Minnesota’s Iron Range. Lawrence River basin.
Columbia Climate Law
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
3] “Congress believed that increased use of these sources of energy would reduce the demand for traditional fossil fuels,” and it recognized that electric utilities had traditionally been “reluctant to purchase power from, and to sell power to, the nontraditional facilities.” [4] U-18090, May 31, 2017 Order (Mich. Footnotes. [1]
Corp Watch
JANUARY 23, 2024
org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N
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