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Feds Hope $5 Billion Settlement A Lesson For Polluters
2014-04-05 15:25:50| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A warning sign at the old Kerr-McGee uranium mill site is shown on Dec. 20, 2007 near Grants, N.M. This week, the Justice Department announced a $5 billion settlement against Kerr-McGee to pay for the cleanup of its toxic sites.
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A Map of Historys Biggest Greenhouse Gas Polluters
2014-03-18 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Cities: Scientists predicted long ago that CO2 emissions would pervert the atmosphere. Now, in a decade with sea levels rising at twice the rate of the 20th century average -- and 10 of the warmest years on record landing in the past 12 years -- how has humankind responded to the threat? Not well, generally speaking. Emissions of CO2 have ticked up by 105 percent since the early 1970s, or about 2 percent a year, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international...
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China to toughen environment law, hold polluters accountable
2014-03-09 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will toughen its environmental protection laws to target polluters, according to a high-level policy report released on Sunday, paving the way for possibly unlimited penalties for polluting and the suspension or shutdown of polluters. The revised law would hold "polluters accountable for the damage they cause and having them compensate for it", said the report, delivered by Zhang Dejiang, who sits on the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee as one of the country's most powerful politicians....
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Steyer may spend $100 million to push climate cause in midterms, but polluters will spend more
2014-02-19 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: After years of being outgunned by polluters and their allies, environmentalists have been celebrating the arrival of a savior: Tom Steyer, a Bay Area hedge-fund billionaire. Last year, he spent $11 million to help Democrat Terry McAuliffe get elected as Virginia governor, and millions more on anti-Keystone ads and the campaign to elect Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey to the Senate. And on Tuesday, The New York Times Nicholas Confessore reported, He is rallying other deep-pocketed donors, seeking...
China gets tough polluters, nixes projects worth $19.5 billion
2014-02-11 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's environmental watchdog vetoed as many as 32 projects with a total investment of 118.4 billion yuan ($19.5 billion) last year as it stepped up efforts to get tough on industrial polluters, a senior official said on Tuesday. Zhai Qing, the vice-environment minister, told reporters his ministry was working to improve its environmental assessment capabilities and strengthen its powers to monitor and punish polluters. "I think our ability to enforce and monitor is extremely important......
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