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Texas Sheriff Is on Mission to End Illegal Dumping of Frack Waste
2014-07-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Deputy Sheriff Hector Zertuche parked his pickup across the road from a gas and oil waste dump and watched through binoculars as a container truck unloaded a mountain of black sludge. Zertuche, the environmental crimes officer for Jim Wells County, is the law here when it comes to oil and gas waste. The job has fallen to him, he said, because the state's environmental agencies don't effectively police the disposal of the industry's waste. It typically contains benzene and other chemicals found...
New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business
2014-06-30 21:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Deforestation has many harmful consequences, from loss of wildlife habitat to degradation of water and air quality, and many more. Now, a new report adds another repercussion to the list: the funding of terrorist groups and other crime networks. Entitled The Environmental Crime Crisis and released last week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) during the first United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, the report found that together with other other illicit operations...
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Illegal real estate agents have outnumbered legitimate ones
2014-06-29 22:00:21| Real Estate - Topix.net
The sector of real estate agents is particularly prone to social security contribution evasion and to undeclared labor, as according to data from the Hellenic Federation of Realtors , the number of illegal agents is actually higher than that of the legal ones.
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N.J. man arrested in Louisiana for illegal poison gas disposal
2014-06-27 16:03:21| Waste Management - Topix.net
Louisiana authorities say two men have been arrested for leaving cylinders that contained poisonous gases at a warehouse in Roanoke.
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UPDATE 3-State high court rules NYC ban on large sodas is illegal
2014-06-27 01:55:45| Beverages - Topix.net
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to limit the sale of large sugary drinks was rejected on Thursday by the state's highest court, which ruled the local health board overstepped its authority in approving the regulation.
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