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Justices rap EPA, but uphold global warming rules
2014-06-23 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a divided court also rebuked environmental regulators for taking too much authority into their own hands without congressional approval. The justices said in a 5-4 vote along ideological lines that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot apply a permitting provision of the Clean Air Act to new and expanded power plants,...
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CHINA: Brands urged to uphold responsibility at Yue Yuen
2014-04-24 13:16:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Hong Kong-based advocacy group Globalization Monitor has issued an open letter to brands sourcing from the striking Yue Yuen factory in China - Adidas, Nike, and Timberland - demanding they uphold their corporate social responsibility.
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Canada: Environmental groups demand BC government uphold its own water laws
2014-03-20 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Observer: Its Water Week in Canada, and events are happening across the country with the purpose of sparking discussion about how to protect this important resource. In BC, environmental justice organizations believe the government is having the wrong conversation. The provincial government is in the process of making changes to the Water Act--including a proposal to change the name to the Water Sustainability Act--and earlier this week, Sierra Club BC and Western Canada Wilderness Committee took the provincial...
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GLOBAL: PepsiCo pledges to uphold sugar land rights
2014-03-20 12:52:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
PepsiCo has joined the Coca-Cola Co in committing to "a zero-tolerance" policy on the land displacements that have fuelled the sugar trade.
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Pepsi says will try to make sure suppliers uphold land rights
2014-03-18 19:50:17| Beverages - Topix.net
PepsiCo, the world's No. 3 food and beverage company, committed on Tuesday to take steps to stop illegal land seizures by suppliers of raw materials such as sugar and palm oil as it tries to improve social and environmental standards.
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