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Adriana Trujillo

China Now Handing Down Death Penalty to Worst Polluters - 0 views

  • Chinese authorities have recently given courts the authority to hand down the death penalty for serious cases of pollution
  • Public anger over China’s growth-at-all-costs policies has been growing steadily in response to the increasingly polluted air and water
  • public’s attitudes towards environmental protection found that up to 80 percent believe that environmental protection should be a higher priority than economic development.
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  • A recent analysis by the Health Effects Institute in Boston found that over a million people die prematurely in China every year as the result of air pollution.
  • Particulate levels in Beijing, Guangzhou and other Chinese cities often rise to as much as seven times the World Health Organization’s air-quality standard
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  • A protest over plans to build a petro-chemical refinery in Kunming
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    Chines courts are allowed to hand down the death penalty for serisous cases of pollution
Del Birmingham

Climate change impacts are already hitting us, say Europeans | Environment | The Guardian - 1 views

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    The citizens of four major European countries think the impacts of climate change such as severe floods and storms are already affecting them, according to a major new polling study. The research dispels the idea that global warming is widely seen as a future problem, and also shows strong support for action to tackle global warming, including subsidies for clean energy and big financial penalties for nations that refuse to be part of the international climate deal signed in Paris in 2015 - as US president Donald Trump has threatened.
Adriana Trujillo

Judge approves Anadarko's record $5.15 billion environmental settlement - 1 views

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    A judge has cleared the way for Anadarko Petroleum topay $5.15 billion to settle an environmental suit, the largest penalty ever in such a case, over fraud claims related to its acquisition of chemical company Tronox eight years ago.
Adriana Trujillo

FedEx Ground Faces Hazardous Waste Violations Fines · Environmental Managemen... - 0 views

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    FedEx Ground Package System allegedly violated California's hazardous waste control laws more than 1,500 times, according to a civil complained filed by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control.
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