Articles include: Making way for wildlife; Biden suspends drilling in the Arctic Refuge; imagining life after highways; methane emitters; where solar & wind power are needed; Study: heat deaths & climate change; Trump denial; airlines & GHGs; Norwegian environmental base.
Tag: courts and lawsuits
DeSmogBlog, May 8, 2021
Articles include: Oregon Utility Using Greenwashing and ‘Renewable Natural Gas’ To Push Back on Potential Gas Bans; New Government Report Highlights Federal Failures to Oversee Offshore Drilling [report is here]; New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide; Over a Half-million Americans Live Near Oil Refineries With High Levels of a Cancer-causing Air Pollutant, Report Finds [report is here]; Ugandan Farmers Whose Land Will Soon Become a Crude Oil Pipeline Pathway Lose Years of Livelihood; Climate Disinformation Database: Energy4US
The Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program
We identify strategies for policymakers and the private sector to overcome obstacles to environmental protection; facilitate the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable future; address the disruptive effects of climate change; and protect public health and welfare from environmental degradation.
Studies: NY Times Climate FWD: May 5, 2021
Paraquat Exposure Alert: Paraquat Linked to Parkinson’s Disease—Agricultural Workers Could Be Entitled to Compensation
The National Law Review: Paraquat Exposure Alert: Paraquat Linked to Parkinson’s Disease—Agricultural Workers Could Be Entitled to Compensation.
Agricultural workers who were exposed to the herbicide paraquat and have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease may have a claim for financial compensation.
With lawsuits against paraquat manufacturers already filed in multiple states, attorneys are now investigating paraquat lawsuit cases at no charge.
A paraquat toxic exposure lawsuit may be your only chance to receive the compensation you need to cover the costs of treating Parkinson’s disease.
What You Need to Know About Paraquat and Parkinson’s Disease
Dozens of countries around the world have banned the use of paraquat, a weed killer so toxic that ingesting a single sip can be deadly, according to The New York Times.
In the United States, paraquat use isn’t just legal—it’s on the rise. The total amount of paraquat usage in the U.S. doubled between 2006 and 2016, the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project reported.
Groups ask Virginia environmental officials to reopen Chickahominy Power permit
Virginia Mercury: Groups ask Virginia environmental officials to reopen Chickahominy Power permit.
Three groups are asking Virginia to reopen an air permit issued to Chickahominy Power in 2019 for a proposed natural gas plant in Charles City County, contending that the state’s analysis of the facility’s environmental justice impacts “contains many of the same defects” of a state air permit struck down by a federal court in January 2020.
“The similarities are just so shocking,” said Taylor Lilley, an attorney with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which penned the letter along with the Southern Environmental Law Center and Concerned Citizens of Charles City County. “It seems the process was just repeated. And that process was found to be faulty.”
Study: Monsanto Court Shenanigans, DDT, food industry
Right to Know: Some of the articles include:
- Monsanto’s owner Bayer and the lawyer involved have denied the allegations. Read the details and see the court documents at U.S. Right to Know.
- Long lasting health impacts of DDT: A story from the reported in Sierra Magazine.
- How the food industry shapes the principles of science: See the new study in Globalization and Health and read our press release for details.
The Daily Climate, April 20, 2021
Articles include: Exxon & carbon capture; offshore wind; glaciers melting in the Andes; coal financing; cities hardest hit by climate change; Biden trying to reinstate US climate change leadership; shrinking sea meadows and GHGs; Canadian budget; Euro lawsuits derail clean energy; DOI heads towards clean energy; climate change and coffee; melting Arctic & Russia.
DeSmogBlog, April 17, 2021
Articles include: Security Firm Accused of Working Illegally on O&G Pipelines; ‘Net-Zero’ PledgesDelay Climate Action new paper warns; Fossil Fuel Companies’ Tough Sell: Oil and Gas Sites With Costly Environmental Clean-up; Shell’s Science Museum Climate Exhibition; Irish Politicians And New Cheese Factory; Environmental Racism, Europe, and Coal Use; European Court & Climate-Related Human Rights Challenges; Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020; Climate Disinformation Database: Bjørn Lomborg.
The Daily Climate, April 14, 2021
Articles include: clean energy focus; blue carbon credits; John Kerry off to China; Glacier in Alaska is moving; Mexico & coal; Cost of rechargeable batteries; Brazil & Indigenous land rights; Endangered American rivers; companies call on Biden to reduce GHGs.