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UPS driver gets comp for heavy-lifting injury, but negligence claim denied
2016-01-04 21:04:34| Air Courier - Topix.net
A United Parcel Service Inc. delivery driver who received workers compensation for injuries caused by lifting a heavy box can't pursue a negligence claim against the package's sender, a California appellate court has ruled. Stephen Moore began working for UPS in 1989 and regularly lifted heavy boxes using proper lifting techniques taught by his employer, according to court records.
Ken Saro-Wiwa memorial art bus denied entry to Nigeria
2015-11-05 11:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A sculpture created as a memorial to Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists has been denied entry to Nigeria, where it had been sent as a gift to mark the 20th anniversary of their execution by the military government. Customs officials impounded Sokari Douglas Camps sculpture, in the form of a steel bus, when it arrived at Lagos port on 8 September, on grounds of its political value. Leaflets and reports sent by courier to commemorate Saro-Wiwas life and death were...
Justice Denied for Murdered Thai Activist Who Defended His Community Against Coal
2015-10-23 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The recent Thai Supreme Court acquittal of three men who masterminded the murder of environmental activist Charoen Wat-aksorn, shows a skewed justice system that puts capitalism in front of community. But this is not the only case of the forced silence of environmentalists. On June 21, 2004, Charoen Wat-aksorn, a 37-year-old pineapple farmer from Bo Nok village in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, some 240 km [150 miles] south of Bangkok, was returning by bus to his hometown. He had just been in the...
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Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s -- and Denied It
2015-10-21 02:04:05| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A few weeks before the last great international climate conference -- 2009, in Copenhagen -- the e-mail accounts of a few climate scientists were hacked and reviewed for incriminating evidence suggesting that global warming was a charade. Eight separate investigations later concluded that there was literally nothing to "Climategate," save a few sentences taken completely out of context -- but by that time, endless, breathless media accounts about the "scandal" had damaged the prospects for any progress at the conference.
?Exxon Knew Everything Was to Know About Climate Change Mid-1980s & Denied It
2015-10-20 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: A few weeks before the last great international climate conference-2009, in Copenhagen-the e-mail accounts of a few climate scientists were hacked and reviewed for incriminating evidence suggesting that global warming was a charade. Eight separate investigations later concluded that there was literally nothing to "Climategate," save a few sentences taken completely out of context-but by that time, endless, breathless media accounts about the "scandal" had damaged the prospects for any progress at...
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