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Louisiana agency sues big oil firms for hurting wetlands
2013-07-24 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Louisiana agency sued 97 oil companies - including BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc - in state court on Wednesday for allegedly damaging hundreds of miles of sensitive wetlands by cutting through them with pipelines and transportation canals. The suit demands the oil industry pay for or remediate environmental damages stemming from decades of work that allegedly caused erosion and hurt coastal wetlands - which experts say serve as critical buffers during floods...
Ohio Engineering, Testing Firms Hit With Big DBE-Related Settlement
2013-06-18 23:22:15| ENR.com: Headline News
A whistleblower observed that the purported owner wasn't the owner and eventually collects over half a million dollars.
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Big firms should report environmental impact : UN panel
2013-05-30 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Big companies should report their impact on the environment in addition to their earnings under a U.N. plan to boost economic growth and ease poverty by 2030, according to recommendations by a panel of world leaders released on Thursday. Slowing climate change and protecting the environment should be at the core of global development, said the 27-member panel, led by British Prime Minister David Cameron, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf....
Northwests so-called green law firms working for Big Coal
2013-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle PI: Top Northwest law firms have, for years, hired out their strategic and lobbying talents to grease big-ticket development projects, from proposed Puget Sound oil ports to trans-continental pipelines to construction of an enormous nuclear power plant in the bucolic Skagit Valley. The drive to build big, coal-export terminals, on the Columbia River at Longview and Cherry Point north of Bellingham, is getting help from some of the region`s big-name barristers, according to a new report by the Sightline...