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Lack of toilets, clean water costs world $260 bln a year - Liberian president
2013-01-31 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Poor access to sanitation and clean water costs the global economy $260 billion each year, according to Liberia's president who is leading work to craft proposals for a new set of global anti-poverty goals. They are intended replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were agreed in 2000 and expire in 2015. "$260 billion in economic losses annually is directly linked to inadequate water supply and sanitation around the world,' Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told a meeting...
Transocean Agrees To Plead Guilty To Environmental Crime And Enter Civil Settlement To Resolve U.S. Clean Water Act Penalty Claims From Deepwater Horizon Incident
2013-01-04 08:28:28| oilandgasonline News Articles
Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) and to pay a total of $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties, for its conduct in relation to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of Justice announced recently. The criminal information, and a proposed partial civil consent decree to resolve the U.S. government’s civil penalty claims against Transocean Deepwater Inc. and related entities were filed today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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