The panel overseeing the use of BP oil spill damage money agreed last week to spend $25.6 million on three projects aimed at increasing oyster production in state coastal waters and $3.1 million to underwrite the Audubon Nature Institute’s participation in the national Marine Mammal Stranding ...
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‘This Is Unforgivable’: Anger Mounts Over Mauritius Oil Spill
NAIROBI, Kenya — Zareen Bandhoo was at work last week in the central Mauritius town of Curepipe when she heard that oil was spilling from a ship into the island nation’s pristine lagoons.
In the days since, as Mauritius has confronted one of its worst environmental disasters, Ms. Bandhoo has been ...
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Alaska Project Would Use ‘Chillers’ to Freeze Thawing Tundra
Climate change is poised to thaw and undermine the soil beneath ConocoPhillips’ proposed Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, making its rigs and roads vulnerable to the same global warming the project will be aggravating.
The project will be so vulnerable to climate change that ...
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Virus Vaccine Rush Leaves Little Recourse for Anyone It Harms
Americans who suffer adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines that the U.S. is racing to develop will have a hard time getting compensated for injuries from the drugs.
That’s because pandemic-related claims for vaccines will be routed to a rarely used federal program set up to encourage ...
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Dupont and 3M knowingly contaminated drinking water across the US, lawsuits allege
New Hampshire is the latest state to file suit against a number of companies, including Dupont and 3M, for their roles in a nationwide drinking water contamination crisis. The lawsuit claims that the polluted water is the result of the manufacture and use of perfluorinated chemicals, a group of more ...
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Oregon Supreme Court overturns cap on non-economic damages
A man who lost his left leg after a garbage truck struck him in March 2015 in downtown Portland will get another chance to argue for an award of noneconomic damages exceeding $500,000.
Oregon's Supreme Court, in a decision announced Thursday, July 9, ruled that the $500,000 cap on such damages ...
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Stag Liuzza asks 5th Circuit to affirm Arkema Class
Last Thursday, Stag Liuzza and associated counsel Samuel Issacharoff asked the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a ruling that made our clients' case against Arkema Chemical, a class action.
In 2017, Arkema's Crosby, Texas plant exploded when peroxide materials left at the ...
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NOLA Reporters Win Environmental Journalism Award
The Times-Picayune and The Advocate have been honored with a prestigious award from the Society of Environmental Journalists for the newspaper’s series “Polluter’s Paradise,” published last year with the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica.
The series won the SEJ’s Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding ...
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2019: deadliest for environmental activists
Last year, 212 environmental activists and land defenders were murdered globally, making 2019 the most deadly year for people resisting extractive industries or protecting endangered species, according to Global Witness’ latest annual report. Some of the killings are perpetrated by government ...
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Seafloor damage from BP spill vastly underestimated
After BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, Paul Montagna was given the job of rushing into the blackened seas to find out how much harm the nation’s biggest oil disaster was doing to the creatures on the sea bottom — the tiny, barely understood and rarely seen organisms that ...
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