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[Gristmill] Bar wars: This may be only the beginning of a court-assisted assault on global warming. Atlantic Monthly reports that the legal strategy employed against the tobacco industry now is being leveled at Big Oil.
[olyecology weblog] 342 - Earth's Tree News: --Oregon: 1) Bush’s latest Spotted Owl scheme released, 2) Old growth climate campaign, 3) Insanities of the last old growth loggers,
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Daily News: Among the plants involved are Duke Energy’s”¦ Cliffside plant in North Carolina and Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU Corp, for its proposed Oak Grove plant in Texas. The Sierra Club said it is considering whether to send intent to .
[writing] The End of the 60s Cont'd: Well aware that effective philanthropy requires as much time and creativity as building a business does, Gates considers himself ''very early on the learning curve of this stuff,'' he says. ''There are just an infinite number of things to be figured out.'' Still, backed by his enormous resources and extraordinary renown (it would be hard to overestimate the power of being Bill Gates), the foundation is already having a major impact -- not only on specific projects in the fields of education and global health but also on other wealthy individuals, on the American conversation about philanthropy and on public policy.
[Hottags] exxon mobil: The regulatory changes have already forced the arm of two of the world's biggest oil players in Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, both of whom have opted out of their respective Venezuelan adventure. Exxon Mobil are suing to claim back …
[419 Scams] Friday: After the death of my late father i and my mother have been maltreated and humiliated by the family members of my late father who claims that by tradition we can not inherit my late fathers wealth, because of this, they tried to kill me and my mother so we ran to a neighboring village and there my late father lawyer came to us and gave us an envelope and in it was some vital documents of my late father that before death of my late father he deposited this money in a bank in Ghana and he gave us all the documents which the bank gave to my late father at the time my late father deposited the money in the bank so i and my mother came to Ghana immediately. Unfortunately to this family members of my late father, they are not aware that before the death of my late father he deposited this money in the bank so we want to transfer the money to you so that we will leave Ghana and meet you in your country and you will help us invest the money for us since we do not have any business ideal and it is a pity that my mother can not speak english properly and my mother said that you will also help us to buy a house in your country after the bank transfer our money to you.
[CSD5] A1 Team Great Britain, Kerr Top A1GP Qualifying At Brands Hatch: Tagged seals go where no scientist has gone beforeABC Regional Online, Australia - 35 minutes ago"We’re going to be able to get data from deep in the Antarctic in the middle of winter which you can’t do using conventional oceano
[Electric Cost Monitoring] Solar electric power to get more affordable: In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court decision, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson repeatedly enunciated a public commitment to determine whether global warming pollution endangers human health or welfare and, if so, to issue proposed greenhouse emission standards for motor vehicles by the end of 2007 and final standards by the end of 2008. For example, EPA Administrator Johnson reasserted his firm commitment to act before a November 8, 2007 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing:
[Turtle Talk] NYTs Article on Native Village of Kevalina vs. Exxon Suit: Svec said, “Rather than unreasonably suing companies for the weather, we would encourage everyone to join Peabody in supporting aggressive development of carbon capture and storage projects and other technologies that help us provide both energy security and carbon solutions.”
[Gary Bogue] Alaska town sues oil & energy companies for destruction caused by ...: They filed the case on their own behalf and on behalf of all tribal members, against defendants ExxonMobil Corp., Peabody Energy Corp., Southern Company, American Electric Power Co., Duke Energy Co., Chevron Corp., and Shell Oil Co., among others.
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[Overlawyered] In February, Berman and Susman””along with two attorneys who have previously worked on behalf of the village and an environmental lawyer specializing in global warming””filed suit in federal court against 24 oil, coal, and electric companies, claiming that their emissions are partially responsible for the coastal destruction in Kivalina. More important, the suit also accuses eight of the firms (American Electric Power, BP America, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, and Southern Company) of conspiring to cover up the threat of man-made climate change, in much the same way the tobacco industry tried to conceal the risks of smoking””by using a series of think tanks and other organizations to falsely sow public doubt in an emerging scientific consensus.