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Jury finds Exxon Mobil liable for $236.4 million in pollution suit
2013-04-09 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found Exxon Mobil Corp liable for $236.4 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the oil company had polluted groundwater in the state with a gasoline additive used to reduce smog in the 1970s and 1980s. Following a three-month trial, jurors deliberated less than two hours before finding that the world's largest publicly traded oil company acted negligently in contaminating the groundwater with the additive MTBE, said Jessica Grant, a lawyer who represented the...
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U.S. jury finds Nintendo liable for patent infringement
2013-03-14 11:10:26| Electronics - Topix.net
A federal jury in New York on Wednesday found that video game company Nintendo Co infringed an inventor's 3-D display technology patent with its handheld 3DS videogame system.
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Environmental group could be liable for $3M in water pollution legal fees
2013-02-11 19:24:20| Food - Topix.net
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Whos liable when a self-driving car self-crashes?
2013-01-29 20:43:55| Extremetech
States ponder how to write regulations. Automakers offer suggestions on who's not at fault (guess).
Should Polluting Nations Be Liable for Climate Damages?
2013-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The UN climate talks in Qatar, which ended last month, were as inconsequential as you might imagine when the host nation chairing the event has the highest per capita carbon emissions in the world. In other words, not a lot happened -- except for one thing. For the first time, nations agreed that developing nations that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change might have a right to redress from major polluting nations for any resulting loss and damage. The conference...
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