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ACI Refutes Criticisms Questioning the Biodegradability of Films Used in Dish Detergents
2021-07-28 18:14:31| Happi Breaking News
Claims that recent attacks rely upon a severely flawed research article and ignore decades of peer-reviewed studies.
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Biggest US coal company funded dozens groups questioning climate change
2016-06-13 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peabody Energy, Americas biggest coalmining company, has funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on manmade climate change and oppose environment regulations, analysis by the Guardian reveals. The funding spanned trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as conservative thinktanks and was exposed in court filings last month. The coal company also gave to political organisations, funding twice as many Republican groups as Democratic ones. Peabody,...
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Brazil's ex-president Lula detained for questioning in anti-graft bust
2016-03-04 17:35:00| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Brazil's federal police detained former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for questioning today in a anti-corruption and money laundering operation and said that illegal gains had financed campaigns and expenses of the ruling Workers Party. Police said they had evidence that Lula received illicit benefits from the kick-back scheme at state oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the form of payments and luxury real estate.
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U.S. oligarchy banishes science; ruling elite destroys anyone questioning GMOs or vaccines
2015-11-04 07:54:04| Electronics - Topix.net
The immense influence that corporations and special interests hold over government policy-making was on full display recently after billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, arrogantly demanded that certain researchers from the University of Oklahoma be fired simply because he doesn't like the truths they're uncovering about natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." The researchers Hamm wants to see axed didn't engage in any misconduct or wrongdoing that would justify their dismissal; they merely conducted research showing that natural gas fracking is contributing to the recent rise in earthquakes in Oklahoma and other typically seismically inactive areas.
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Regulators close case questioning California reactor repairs
2015-07-31 23:40:13| Energy - Topix.net
Federal regulators have dropped a case questioning whether Southern California Edison violated rules when it installed faulty equipment at the now-closed San Onofre nuclear power plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruling Thursday concluded the issue was no longer relevant since the coastal reactors between Los Angeles and San Diego are retired.
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