Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2024

The OHCHR found that more older women are likely to live alone, experience higher levels of poverty, and face disproportionate health risks, including from air pollution harms and extreme heat events. Similarly, General Recommendation No.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

TOC has been billed as a double-win : it encourages new housing to be located near public transit—a boon for climate, local air pollution, and traffic—and it creates more “affordable housing.”. While this is politically difficult, or maybe impossible, it is important to understand how far short our current affordability programs fall.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Comparison with the results of the second soil survey indicated that three decades of rapid economic growth had also meant rapid pollution of China’s land. In 2018, results were published from the survey of pollution of agricultural land, which again warned of pollution risks in some soil. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We began to investigate ethylene oxide risks in 2018 after speaking to lawmakers and community advocates in Illinois. The combination of legal obligation, public pressure and attention, and political will under the Biden administration is what I think finally tipped the scales for action at the federal level.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The National Pork Producers Council litigation arises from an initiative measure–Proposition 12–that California voters passed overwhelmingly in 2018. beyond their political borders. –in which various farm animals–including pigs–are confined.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building. The first and most visible way in which the public is aware of and engaged with environmental law is pollution.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. In 2018, the General Court partially upheld the actions, prompting an appeal from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. . Over the past year, tens of thousands of people across Canada have signed petitions and sent letters to political leaders urging them to ban thermal coal exports by 2023. .

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb. 1, 2018; ruling Feb. The court said defendants had not waived this issue. People of State of California v. BP p.l.c. , 3:17 -cv-06012 (N.D. order setting schedule Mar. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 16-35380, 16-35382 (9th Cir.

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