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Safeway fined nearly $10 million for illegal disposal of waste
2015-01-06 22:00:01| Grocery - Topix.net
The Safeway supermarket chain has been ordered to pay nearly $10 million for illegally dumping batteries, electronics and pharmaceuticals in California landfills. Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley says the practice occurred at more than 500 Safeway, Vons, Pavilions and Pak 'n Save stores and distribution sites throughout California for more than seven years.
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Russia Seizes Illegal Pork Imported from Lithuania
2014-12-31 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
RUSSIA - The Russian authorities have blocked a consignment of pork from entering the country because they believed it to come from Lithuania and could have been contaminated with African swine fever.
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Volunteers clean up illegal camp trash along Willamette River
2014-12-20 01:51:49| Railroads - Topix.net
One month after a YouTube video surfaced showing a Willamette River shore littered with trash, dozens of volunteers moved in Friday to clean up what illegal campers left behind. The video shot by Aaron Baker captured the mess left along a 150-yard stretch of waterfront north of Franklin Boulevard.
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Indonesia: Report highlights link between palm oil and illegal logging
2014-12-18 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian Correspondent: Palm oil that nearly ubiquitous ingredient found in processed foods, hygiene products and cosmetics fuels air and water pollution, climate change, extinction and human rights violations. A multi-billion-dollar industry, big palm has the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia, where around 80% of the worlds palm oil is produced, in its pocket. This means there has been little enforcement of laws that protect the environment and people from a destructive sector that is both incredibly powerful...
Palm oil facilitates large-scale illegal logging in Indonesia
2014-12-16 06:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Development of oil palm plantations is providing cover for large-scale illegal logging in Indonesian Borneo, driving destruction of some of the island's most biodiverse forests and undermining efforts to reform the country's forestry sector, alleges a new report published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The report, titled Permitting Crime: How palm oil expansion drives illegal logging in Indonesia, includes several case studies showing links between illegal practices and local...
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