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New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

The Guardian: Energy

It details the havoc wrought on New York by 2021’s Hurricane Ida and 2012’s Hurricane Sandy , and other deadly climate events such as extreme heatwaves across the US this past summer. Continue reading.

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BP and Shell ‘Shaped’ UK Carbon Tax Proposals, Private Emails Show

DeSmogBlog

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The think tank would go on to author a report in 2019 that proposed tough new policing laws to crackdown on climate protestors.

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Progress made but too many still falling short, says EA on environmental performance of water and sewerage firms

Envirotec Magazine

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. ” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.”

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Gasification platform demonstrates renewable gas production from SRF

Envirotec Magazine

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.”

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Catalytic Converter Theft: Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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Amy Keating Joins Planet as Chief Legal Officer

Planet Pulse

joining in 2012 as the Company’s first lawyer focused on litigation. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a B.A. FCC , seeking to overturn the rollback of federal net neutrality protections. Amy also served as Vice President, Legal and Deputy General Counsel at Twitter, Inc.,

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