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Dutch court to issue verdict in Shell Nigeria pollution suit
2013-01-30 00:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Dutch court will rule on Wednesday whether Royal Dutch Shell is responsible for pollution in Nigeria, a case activists say could set a precedent for damage claims related to the foreign activities of multinational companies. Four Nigerians and interest group Friends of the Earth filed the suit in 2008 in The Hague, where Shell has its joint global headquarters, seeking unspecified reparations for lost income from contaminated land and waterways in the Niger Delta. The Nigerians - fishermen...
DeSmog Canada Launches To Clean Up PR Pollution From The Public Square
2013-01-28 02:30:06| pollutiononline News Articles
The most urgent environmental threat to Canadians isn't climate change, the declining health of our oceans, or the extinction of species. It's thepublic relations pollutionpreventing a sensible public conversation on critical issues involving the environment, social justice and the economy
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Take a deep breath of everyone else's air and pollution
2013-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Perhaps it was due to the fever of impending flu, or the arctic winds rattling our Tokyo home, but recent media photos of Beijing`s thick smog suddenly brought to mind thoughts of the late U.S. president, John F. Kennedy. On June 26, 1963, Kennedy delivered his most famous Cold War speech to reassure the people of Germany that the United States would not abandon the citizens of West Berlin. By then, those citizens had been encircled by the 155-km-long Berlin Wall erected by the German Democratic...
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Pollution here and abroad
2013-01-27 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: DURING HIS confirmation hearing Thursday, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), President Obama's pick to be the next secretary of state, said that he intends to press China on climate change. The rapidly developing behemoth, he noted, "is soon going to have double the emissions of the United States.' His words are a welcome dose of reality. In 2007 China blew past the United States as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Large, developing countries, particularly China and India, are projected to be...
Northeast Faces Stark Choice on Climate Pollution
2013-01-25 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: EIGHT years ago, a bipartisan coalition of Northeast and mid-Atlantic governors joined forces to reduce pollution from electric power plants. They agreed to cap overall emissions of carbon dioxide, the major pollutant driving global warming, and require the more than 200 power plants in the region to buy permits to emit the greenhouse gas. The governors reasoned that plant operators would have an incentive to clean up their emissions if they had to pay for the carbon dioxide they discharged. Over...
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