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Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon
2015-08-01 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Cāmara dos Deputados (the Brazilian Lower House). Widely hailed as a socially responsible and 'innocuous' strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale. But a study published in PLOS ONE reveals that these farmer resettlement projects are far...
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Judge Approves $53.8M Settlements for 82 WTC Cleanup Workers
2015-06-15 21:51:00| Waste Age
Reuters A federal judge has approved $53.8 million in settlements for 82 unionized cleanup workers who claimed they were made ill by exposure to toxic dust near the World Trade Center site, court papers showed. read more
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A series of settlements in 2010 Gulf oil spill
2015-05-22 04:07:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A committee of lawyers representing businesses and individuals claiming damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill announced a $211 million settlement Wednesday with Transocean Ltd., owner of the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. In a separate development, oil giant BP - which leased the rig from Transocean - reached settlements resolving years of complicated spill-related litigation with Transocean, and with contractor Halliburton, which did cement work on the rig before it exploded in April 2010.
A series of settlements in 2010 Gulf oil spill
2015-05-22 02:28:50| Energy - Topix.net
A committee of lawyers representing businesses and individuals claiming damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill announced a $211 million settlement Wednesday with Transocean Ltd., owner of the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. In a separate development, oil giant BP - which leased the rig from Transocean - reached settlements resolving years of complicated spill-related litigation with Transocean, and with contractor Halliburton, which did cement work on the rig before it exploded in April 2010.
Takeda warns of loss after $2.4 bn diabetes drug settlements
2015-04-29 09:19:20| Biotech - Topix.net
Top Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical on Wednesday warned of its first annual loss in more than six decades after agreeing to pay around $2.4 billion to settle lawsuits over its Actos diabetes drug, amid cancer claims. The company said costs regarding the US lawsuits would send it into the red for the first time since it was listed on stock exchanges in 1949.
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