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Brazils Senate could soon be voting against the countrys environmental safeguards
2016-02-16 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Tomorrow, Brazils Senate could be voting on a new measure which would speed up the process required to obtain environmental licenses for infrastructure projects. Dubbed as PLS 654/2015, the bill is moving urgently through the Senate, according to the Senate general secretary board. The project would grant the governments executive branch the power to indicate, by decree, which constructions are considered strategic for the sustainable development of the country, by offering them a so-called...
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Mining company executives indicted in Brazil over countrys largest environmental disaster
2016-01-15 03:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Yesterday, Brazils federal police in Minas Gerais charged Samarco CEO, Ricardo Vescovi De Aragao, for environmental crimes caused by the disruption of the Fundo tailings dam Brazils largest environmental disaster. The Samarco and Vale mining companies were also indicted, as well as VogBR Recursos Hídricos e Geotécnica, responsible for signing the statement that declared the dam stable just last year. In a message to Mongabay, VogBRs CEO, André Euzébio, cleared his company of any wrongdoing,...
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Keeping up crop production as climate shifts the country's 'bread basket'
2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In September 2014, a group of leading plant and agricultural researchers sat down at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss a looming question -- how will agriculture in the Midwest be affected by climate change? This wasn't just an academic exercise. Midwestern farmers grow the majority of the country's corn and soybeans, and scientists had predicted that yields could take a substantial hit from changing weather patterns, with potential impacts on food prices and farmers' earnings. Even...
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One Of The Country's Largest Fracking Companies Cheated...
2015-12-11 20:41:18| Paper - Topix.net
If allegations put forward this week are true, one of the nation's largest fracking companies may have to pay millions in Pennsylvania for underpaying royalties to landowners. Chesapeake Energy Corporation and others connected with their operations in Pennsylvania allegedly defrauded thousands of landowners, including seniors, Pennsylvania's Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane charged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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Canada's elections could shake up the country's stance on climate change
2015-10-19 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Canadians are casting their ballots on Monday in a tight parliamentary election that could change the course of the country's future, particularly when it comes to one very important issue: climate change. The election will determine if Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has led the nation since 2006, will continue in power or if the Liberal Party, who were leading opinion polls ahead of the vote, would be ushered into office. Climate change, an issue that Harper has long put on...
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