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Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court

2013-10-16 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering. Chevron was found liable in 2011 for an ecological catastrophe caused by pollution released in the 1970s and 1980s by Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001 and for which they agreed to assume legal obligations....

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BP Fights to Shrink Gulf Spill Estimate to Cap Verdict

2013-09-30 05:19:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

BP Plc , seeking to reduce potential water pollution fines of as much as $18 billion, will try to convince a judge that less oil spilled in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster than the U.S. claims and that it capped the deep-sea gusher as quickly as possible.

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High-Stakes Verdict Looms in Paint Case

2013-09-26 08:30:13| Chemicals - Topix.net

Attorneys for five former producers of lead-based paint and 10 California jurisdictions have rested their cases to end a landmark trial 13 years in the making and potentially worth $2 billion.

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Airlines Face Carbon-Reduction Verdict on $708 Billion Industry

2013-09-24 11:54:52| Airlines - Topix.net

Nations from the U.S. to Russia and the European Union are set for the final showdown over the first-ever global commitment to designing an emissions-reduction market tool for the $708 billion airline industry.

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