Other benefits include faster manufacturing turns and less environmental damage.
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That could have caused death, injury, property and environmental damage.
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For the electric Focus, environmental damage was far more regional.
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And that broad definition went beyond personal, it included environmental damage.
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There was no environmental damage caused by the incident, SHANA said.
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Without intervention, the researchers believe that the environmental damage will worsen.
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These photos show the direct environmental damage caused by Islamic State militants.
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Coptis argues that managing environmental damage is essential to attracting new business.
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Advocates have voiced alarm that an extended shutdown could cause environmental damage.
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The environmental damage of drug production is undeniable and of course regrettable.
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Both methods have caused environmental damage to areas around lithium processing operations.
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It wasn't crude oil, but it has the potential for environmental damage.
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The exact potential environmental damage is not yet known, the lawsuit says.
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The attacks, which numbered 43 last year, cause oil spills and environmental damage.
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It is not known at this time whether the accident caused environmental damage.
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The city's difficulty, environmental damage aside, is how to take long-term advantage.
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Messy complications, from environmental damage to inequality, are placed firmly in the foreground.
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The environmental damage caused by the shutdown goes beyond lapses at the EPA.
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National Parks in various countries are dealing with environmental damage from tourism, too.
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The tribe would get revenue to address environmental damage and rising healthcare costs.
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Critics say fracking is responsible for environmental damage, excessive noise and even earthquakes.
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But the country is still struggling to balance economic growth against environmental damage.
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These sorts of policies limit how much environmental damage our descendants can do.
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After that, officials said they'd focus on environmental damage and the mining process.
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Greenpeace Russia, where Tereshkov also volunteers, has tried to highlight the environmental damage.
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The miner said there were no injuries or environmental damage because of the accident.
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Carson exposed the chemical's widespread environmental damage in her groundbreaking 1962 book, Silent Spring.
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This lack of accountability for privatized water companies leaves room for significant environmental damage.
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Mining companies are obligated to remediate any environmental damage that may occur, he added.
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A fifth will go towards cleaning up environmental damage caused by illegal cannabis-growing.
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Island building on such a scale would likely face opposition over potential environmental damage.
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However, he maintains that as societies mature, their tolerance for environmental damage also diminishes.
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"It is a Green Revolution...as it's more food and less environmental damage," he said.
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Last year, China moved to ban "foreign garbage" as a way to reduce environmental damage.
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So far, attacks have specifically avoided civilian deaths and environmental damage like an oil spill.
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Activists and locals have spoken out about the potential environmental damage of various BRI projects.
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Beyond populated areas, there are other troubling signs of environmental damage exacerbated by human activity.
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Those include environmental damage to the Great Barrier Reef and the impact of artificial intelligence.
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This was largely in response to local opposition to environmental damage and abusive Chinese business practices.
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India said it destroyed a militant training camp, adding Pakistan's accusation of environmental damage was "misguided".
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The scene illustrates growing concerns about the environmental damage from rising amounts of plastic waste globally.
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The charges under consideration include murder, manslaughter, environmental damage and false representation, Sampaio told the Journal.
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Others suggest environmental damage caused by Réunion's growing population, and urban development along its western coastline.
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The industry is constantly being criticized for poor working conditions, unsanitary farms, and ancillary environmental damage.
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The song follows a call from prominent climate scientists to make environmental damage a war crime.
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There's huge variation among industries in how much environmental damage they do per dollar of production.
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It feels real, and the brain treats it like an experience, but no environmental damage occurs.
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The WHO said it should be mandatory for tobacco companies to supply information on environmental damage.
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There, they can cause environmental damage and may add to the growing problem of microplastic pollution.
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But the opportunities for new products and services to reduce environmental damage could be worth much more.
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Trump signed a bill disapproving the Stream Protection Rule to reduce environmental damage from surface coal mining.
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Environmental damage in the form of poor soil, neglected wetlands or degraded vegetation can exacerbate the problem.
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Top retailers and companies have been cracking down on using plastic because of the material's environmental damage.
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Some of these are familiar: cheap labor costs and a willingness to overlook environmental damage, for example.
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Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine any evidence of environmental damage lessening the Trump administration's appetite for oil.
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The leak displaced 8,000 California residents and caused more environmental damage than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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For the better part of human history, creating light often meant tons of work and environmental damage.
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Public awareness of the environmental damage from making regular plastic bags is limited outside of major cities.
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Some of those projects have run into opposition from nearby communities, which are concerned about environmental damage.
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There have been 32 bombings so far this year, according to Ecopetrol, and frequently cause environmental damage.
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That could weaken the legal arguments of residents impacted by environmental damage, he said in an interview.
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Within that period, it must recapture at least 10 percent or "environmental damage is assumed," Alarcon said.
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Nuclear weapons breed distrust in the international community and their production and maintenance cause immeasurable environmental damage.
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For all the environmental damage done by corporate mining, illegal miners are far more destructive, experts say.
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The coronavirus is perhaps humanity's first clear, indisputable sign that environmental damage can kill humans fast too.
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Let there be no misunderstanding, the threat of severe economic and environmental damage is real and growing.
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Some indigenous leaders initially argued that mining could be a boon, without causing too much environmental damage.
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Critics say that instead of mitigating environmental damage, tree plantations aimed at compensating deforestation make matters worse.
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But there is going to be some environmental damage and possibly in ways we couldn't even predict.
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"It is surprising that none of the inspections of the public authorities ... ever highlighted environmental damage," it said.
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For instance, there's currently no way to track the environmental damage that goes into the production of goods.
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You can directly sample the stratosphere, which is useful for monitoring things like the impact of environmental damage.
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Duterte has often criticized the mining industry, saying the environmental damage far outweighs any benefit to the economy.
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Three in particular are draining Americans' pocketbooks, paralyzing economic growth, and in some cases, actually doing environmental damage.
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Visitors contribute to environmental damage, so Italian officials limited the number of visitors to 1.5 million per year.
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Critics have warned that the building infrastructure projects under the BRI can cause environmental damage and displace people.
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Farmers in the area complain that the rise of charcoal-making has wreaked environmental damage on agricultural land.
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Many locals blamed environmental damage from Tehran's oil production policies in the province for facilitating the dust storms.
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The environmental damage from this work lasts to this day, long after the hype for gold gradually subsided.
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As a result, they may make their way into surface water, causing environmental damage, new research has shown.
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Since 2017, Westport's Net Zero by 2050 initiative has been supporting efforts like these to minimize environmental damage.
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"Rare earth production is as bad as you can get in terms of environmental damage," the trader said.
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The pair are arguably the two most famous figures in the fight against climate change and environmental damage.
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All in all, optimists think the environmental damage caused by a one-term Trump administration could be relatively limited.
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Moreover, pumping millions of cubic yards of sand onto beaches can cause environmental damage, according to decades of studies.
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In an effort to curb environmental damage from throw-away plastics, many businesses and several states are taking action.
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Alvow teased lead singer David Coverdale's curls, and unloaded enough hairspray on the backup dancers to do environmental damage.
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Cleaning up the mess heaped on top of decades of pollution and environmental damage will take years, possibly decades.
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The CDC is most interested in the ways in which environmental damage can affect population health, according to Winkelspecht.
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It considers the threat and frequency of environmental damage, as well as the economic harm associated with carbon emissions.
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Dozens of recycling factories cropped up in Malaysia, many without an operating license, and residents complained of environmental damage.
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But overall the environmental damage is severe, in terms both of adding smog to cities and accelerating climate change.
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Residents accused the subsidiary, Texaco, of environmental damage stemming from oil exploration in the Amazon rainforest in the 1990s.
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Officials, pipeline companies and experts said the protesters could have caused environmental damage themselves by shutting down the lines.
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Because human activities cause this environmental damage, our species is culpable for a crime we are committing against ourselves.
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The island has suffered environmental damage and neglect for decades, from drinking water contamination to pollution from overfilling landfills.
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The goal of restructuring our economic systems to account for ecological and environmental damage undergirds all the other suggestions.
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The government estimates that 60-70 percent of small-scale miners in the country operate illegally, causing environmental damage.
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It will also rule on whether China has caused environmental damage in constructing an artificial island at Mischief Reef.
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The forum has since taken on wider interests, organizing protests against environmental damage and running independent candidates for Parliament.
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The environmental damage from fossil fuel storage is most dramatically illustrated by the Aliso Canyon gas leak in California.
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These figures say nothing of the cost of weather-related car crashes or environmental damage caused by snow removal.
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That harnesses otherwise fiscally self-defeating tax-avoiding behavior to minimize the costs of health care and environmental damage.
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Norway, the greatest of all Winter Olympic countries, found too many expenses and too much potential environmental damage. Pass.
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The August 2015 Gold King Mine spill kicked off a flurry of lawsuits over environmental damage and government incompetence.
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"Serious environmental damage has been done, and social problems such as drug addiction continue to threaten our future," it reads.
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Authorities in Morocco believe that $300m they have invested in new sanitary landfills has already averted $440m in environmental damage.
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It rolls back internal rules for government agencies on how to tot up the social costs of environmental damage, too.
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But there continues to be a high number of overall pipeline accidents, including those resulting in property or environmental damage.
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SHANA said the tanker was now safe with no injuries reported, and there was no environmental damage from the incident.
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Officials said hazardous substance experts also continued working with firefighters at the scene to contain leaks and minimize environmental damage.
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In February, Ahvaz saw extensive demonstrations against air pollution and other regional environmental damage, such as contamination of water supplies.
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CSX said company hazardous substance experts were working with firefighters at the scene to contain leaks and minimize environmental damage.
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Never mind that many trace the way humans are wreaking havoc on Earth, through terrorism or by provoking environmental damage.
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The country is hosting the East Asian Seas Congress, which is focused on mediating environmental damage and encouraging economic growth.
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Mr. Schvartsman, the Vale C.E.O., said he felt the environmental damage was not as severe as the loss of lives.
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There have been complaints about environmental damage done by logging in Siberia, but the climate impact is harder to measure.
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It was not immediately clear if anyone had been injured in the episode or how significant the environmental damage was.
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The Clean Air Act has dramatically improved the quality of the air we breathe, prevented environmental damage, and saved lives.
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The EV that caused no environmental damage on the road during the day still needs to be charged at night.
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Officials, pipeline companies and experts say the protesters ran the danger of causing environmental damage themselves by shutting down the lines.
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All this environmental damage has the potential to create even worse humanitarian crises down the road, warns Erik Solheim of UNEP.
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Awareness of the dangers of environmental damage, and of the threat from climate change, has grown over the past half-century.
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"The companies are excluded based on an assessment of the risk of severe environmental damage," the board said in a statement.
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Ricardo Salles, the environment minister, calls climate change a "secondary issue" and opposes many of the penalties levied for environmental damage.
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Another source of cash is gold, much of it mined by wildcatters with scant concern for the environmental damage they cause.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Researchers in Bangladesh are developing new building materials to mitigate the environmental damage caused by brick manufacturing.
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Long-term, then, lab-grown meat could do serious environmental damage—given, that is, these facilities aren't powered by renewable energy.
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Rosenbarger said the tool does not prove that growers are responsible for any environmental damage in the area around the mill.
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It was not immediately clear how much environmental damage had been caused or the volume of oil spilled into the sea.
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As a former village official, he approved mining in the area but was dismayed two years later by the environmental damage.
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In 260 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, an exposé of the long-term health and environmental damage caused by chemical pesticides.
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Chile's environmental regulator shut down the water system attached to the Maricunga mine in March, citing environmental damage which Kinross disputes.
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In May, Vietnam blocked Facebook as a push to control protests over environmental damage caused by waste from a steel plant.
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It would not take an American-Russian conflagration to inflict enormous environmental damage, said Alan Robock, a climatologist at Rutgers University.
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Because social and environmental damage often has a tipping-point, certain thresholds will be crossed and existing problems will become unbearable.
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The extensive nature of the fire has caused a magnitude of material and environmental damage affecting over 10,000 hectares of land.
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They also worry about catastrophic environmental damage if the pipeline were to break near where it crosses under the Missouri River.
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The Abandoned Mine Land fund (AML) is America's source of funding for reclaiming abandoned coal mines, especially those causing environmental damage.
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No. I don't think it should be happening in the first place, because you can't put a price on environmental damage.
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The charges for crimes related to the disaster could include murder, manslaughter, environmental damage and false representation, according to the report.
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There is a running dispute about tax payments, while allegations of environmental damage are currently being heard by England's Supreme Court.
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Reuters noted Norway is also urging several companies to make sure they are not contributing to environmental damage in the Amazon.
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Greenpeace, the environmental advocacy group, said it was worried about the potential for environmental damage and would be monitoring cleanup efforts.
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Critics have been skeptical, arguing that projects bankrolled through the initiative will bury the recipients in debt and cause environmental damage.
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Members in Russia's upper house of parliament have assailed officials for ignoring the environmental damage in Siberia and the Far East.
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A similar dam burst at another Vale mine in Minas Gerais in 2015, killing 19 people and causing widespread environmental damage.
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Below: Fluids and gases are escaping from old, abandoned boreholes drilled in the ground, causing environmental damage near Hobbs, New Mexico.
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The statement said public prosecutors planned to take legal action beyond the fines to ensure the offenders repair all environmental damage.
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Our ability to harvest these same metals from asteroids could help to seriously mitigate the environmental damage done by seabed mining.
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It will provide $2.7 billion to mitigate environmental damage, which The Guardian estimates at about a million tons of air pollution worldwide.
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"Proteins sustain environmental damage and the damaged proteins have to be ... replaced with newly synthesized (produced) proteins," explained Nair in an email.
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"Insurance company may be willing to pay the environmental damage, but it does not absolve criminal side of the case," authorities said.
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A secretary of state whose oil company has wreaked environmental damage suffered most disproportionately by African Americans and people of color, check.
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There is no evidence that the leaks at the mine have endangered public health or caused environmental damage, Goldcorp and regulators say.
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"They are like superfund sites," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Escobar, whose Fresno office has filed numerous marijuana-related environmental damage cases.
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The El Paso shooter's main fixation was immigration, but he also wrote in his manifesto about excessive corporate power and environmental damage.
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It maintained that there were reasonable grounds for believing the money, meant for mitigating environmental damage, would be removed from South Africa.
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Indonesian palm oil producers are facing increasing pressure in markets such as Europe due to concerns over environmental damage related to deforestation.
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Indonesia's environment ministry last week launched an agency to manage funds to repair environmental damage and educate communities to prevent further harm.
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Nothing short of a mass-extinction event for humans can stop and reverse the environmental damage done or occurring to the planet.
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Cowspiracy argues that animal agriculture is the leading cause of environmental damage via factors like greenhouse gases, water consumption, and wildlife extinction.
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A steep and rapid rise in tourism has left behind a wake of economic and environmental damage in cities around the globe.
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The village councils in Kinnaur in the northern Indian state had said they were concerned about environmental damage from the power project.
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But now the government, hoping to limit environmental damage and encourage villagers to find new jobs, had banned fishing during the summer.
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The plant takes just six months to regenerate and can be re-harvested every three years without any environmental damage, he added.
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It not only provides coverage but it also protects your skin from environmental damage, thanks to the inclusion of marine-plant extracts.
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According to a U.N. report, the dredging "exhausted all of the marine sand resources in Dubai," and also did extensive environmental damage.
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Black clouds and a cobalt sliver of a moon are stuck to the ground in the upside-down world of environmental damage.
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He sued, or threatened lawsuits against, them or their advisers for securities fraud, phony accounting, environmental damage, false advertising and other misconduct.
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Funds from the agency will be distributed as grants or investment to restore environmental damage and educate communities to prevent further damage.
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But many in Myanmar view China warily and infrastructure projects have been deeply unpopular, uprooting thousands of villagers and wreaking environmental damage.
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And in many metros, EVs actually produced more environmental damage than gas cars: Atlanta (-$314), Chicago (-$900) and D.C. (-$1,077), among them.
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Calls for a new legal instrument that would hold governments criminally responsible for wartime environmental damage have actually been around for two decades.
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It also underlines how easy it would be to remain forever ignorant and lose this resource because of climate change and environmental damage.
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Ultimately, the $200 billion spent on vaccinations will be just a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cost of environmental damage.
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There was no sign of an oil sheen or other environmental damage on Monday, but officials said they were still evaluating the site.
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But as the health and environmental damage became better known, it fueled fierce opposition at every level across the country to nuclear testing.
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"A central feature of his agenda is environmental damage: making the air dirtier and exposing people to more toxic chemicals," the scientists claim.
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She asked the executives to pardon the disruption from younger protesters who were concerned about environmental damage from the pipeline and shale oil.
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China wants to remedy environmental damage caused by three decades of breakneck growth through incentives for private businesses to profit from environmental protection.
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Under the agreement announced Thursday, the company will offset some of the environmental damage caused by the cars by investing in clean technologies.
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Packed with members of the farming and business lobby, the government has been accused of downplaying environmental damage, including rising levels of deforestation.
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The only way to avoid exploitation, environmental damage, and corruption might be to grow your own, although growing weed is a thirsty business.
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But when you look at the environmental damage that immediately affects people's health, we've actually made enormous accomplishments in a very short time.
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Travalyst will also work to educate the public on how tourism can contribute to climate change and environmental damage, according to media reports.
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Critics say that the policy will not only result in more pollution, but also make it impossible to fully assess the environmental damage.
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Besides costing billions, the type of barrier Mr. Trump has proposed would cause severe environmental damage and lead to lawsuits over private land.
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In September, Mr. Trump suggested that the Environmental Protection Agency would get involved because homelessness in the Bay Area was causing environmental damage.
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Several states have invoked the Clean Water Act to delay approval of sections of pipelines, arguing that the pipelines will cause environmental damage.
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Police officers in Mendocino County said their priority was to go after people who cause environmental damage or who grow on public lands.
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In February, Pennsylvania fined the company $12.6 million for environmental damage, including the discharge of drilling fluids into state waters without a permit.
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The races, in head-to-head elimination format without spectators, will be filmed in areas already suffering from environmental damage or under threat.
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Race for Water's experts made over a dozen stops on land during their nine-month voyage, studying the environmental damage to various coastlines.
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The civil war was largely about how the profits from the mine should be shared, and about the environmental damage it had caused.
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The environmental damage of war is lesser-known than other side effects, but is almost always an important factor in a country's welfare.
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When millennials are polled, they're much more likely than their elders to say they try to actively minimize driving to avoid causing environmental damage.
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Loop's unveiling comes just months after China's decision to stop collecting and processing plastic waste escalated alarm over environmental damage to the world's oceans.
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And finding a way to price the cost of environmental damage into the use of cars is leading to calls for a congestion charge.
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Individuals or companies that cause environmental damage will have to help restore the environment or pay compensation if damage is beyond repair, Xinhua reported.
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The letter raised concerns about environmental damage from mining, the overuse of dynamite, and violent crime and drug abuse going unchecked in the area.
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And, the cost to all the rest of us in human and environmental damage from the pollution it emits isn't reflected anywhere at all.
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The negative effects of overtourism include overcrowding, pricing locals out of real estate, and environmental damage, Annie Lowrey wrote for The Atlantic in June.
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Writer Sam Corbin gets most of her clothing from secondhand sources to help offset the environmental damage caused by the rise of fast fashion.
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Environmental damage was ignored or hidden, and grandiose promises of how the project would benefit depressed communities with nearly 500,000 new jobs proved false.
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It was also the result of vast green projects launched by the government to assuage public anger over toxic air and other environmental damage.
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Some of Franzen's detractors worried that internalizing his message could discourage efforts to halt or reverse environmental damage, that his gloom could be catching.
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Dams often inflicts environmental damage to aquatic eco-systems that creates socio-economic risks to communities dependent on rivers and lakes for their livelihoods.
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Several bills have been presented to parliament since 2012 proposing a special tax on its use in food, citing environmental damage caused by plantations.
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The environmental damage should deeply trouble a state that has moved to shut down an entire industry in order to protect delta smelt minnows.
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At the same time, environmental damage and crime associated with illegal cannabis businesses remain entrenched in the state despite legalization, law enforcement officials say.
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Poverty and environmental damage are among Louisiana's main problems: he wants a higher minimum wage, more federal subsidies and corporate aid to fight coastal erosion.
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There has been a public outcry over environmental damage, however, with mining blamed for polluting land and turning waters red near the state capital Kuantan.
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"All necessary precautions were taken for the safety of the crew and to ensure there is no environmental damage and to provide assistance," it added.
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To please the powerful farm lobby that has two-fifths of the votes in the lower house, Temer agreed to lower fines for environmental damage.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte last week warned he would soon halt mining in the Southeast Asian nation because of the environmental damage it has caused.
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"My hope is that my artwork can share this message of change yet also ignite a passion to help prevent further environmental damage," she writes.
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It has announced that old and new map images will be compared to assess the environmental damage caused by real estate development in Mumbai city.
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Companies are under pressure to prove that the minerals they consume are sourced from mines that do not employ children or cause major environmental damage.
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Volkswagen also agreed to pay $2.7 billion into a fund that will be used for projects to mitigate the environmental damage caused by its cars.
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Many of the villagers, who were protesting against the environmental damage they said the mine caused, were rounded up and some were beaten, they said.
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By how much should you mark down the environmental damage of pollution to take account of the fact that it comes mostly in the future?
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He pioneered scholarship on the environmental damage inflicted under Communist domination and the emergence of a post-Soviet economy driven by oil and gas production.
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Gradually — some say too gradually — financial firms are directing money away from oil companies and others associated with carbon-dioxide emissions blamed for environmental damage.
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Drawing on that document, the synod will develop the idea of "integral ecology" which looks for connections between environmental damage and economic and social malaise.
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Though pumping on the pipeline was already halted for maintenance work, the bombing caused some oil spillage and environmental damage, a source at Ecopetrol said.
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Meanwhile, two petitions on the White House website related to the fish kill and environmental damage in the affected region have drawn over 150,000 signatures.
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An accounting of the environmental damage done by BP would start with 2010's Deepwater Horizon spill, one of the most devastating such events in history.
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Although SMB employs more than 17,000 people directly or indirectly, many locals say the new job opportunities are not enough to compensate for the environmental damage.
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An inspectorate in Bosnia's autonomous Bosniak-Croat federation, in a statement, said it had told GIKIL to halt operations in order to prevent major environmental damage.
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A year ago 310 investors concerned about environmental damage, managing a whopping $32trn between them, launched a group called Climate Action 100+ to co-ordinate efforts.
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Xinhua added that owners of polluting firms or slack local officials would be held accountable for any environmental damage and could be prosecuted for criminal liability.
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Scotland has a fracking moratorium but is under public pressure to ban it outright despite the jobs it would bring, because of fears of environmental damage.
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The rule would have helped save lives, prevent environmental damage, and reduce injuries, evacuations and property damage at and near the site of a chemical accident.
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Trump signed a bill undoing the so-called Stream Protection Rule, an Obama-era regulation which aimed to curb environmental damage from mountaintop removal coal mining.
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Self-driving also has positive implications for reducing environmental damage, cutting gas and electric costs, creating land supply from repurposed parking lots and eliminating traffic congestion.
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China is in the fifth year of a "war on pollution" aimed at reversing the environmental damage done by nearly four decades of unchecked economic growth.
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The national park has been mined for the mineral in the past but critics say the action caused irreversible environmental damage and threatened the groundwater there.
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At the time, local news media quoted the company as saying that environmental damage in the area had been caused by drought rather than extraction operations.
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When she raised concerns about potential environmental damage and tried to negotiate with the company building the Bayou pipeline, her family was threatened with a lawsuit.
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She followed it by cancelling 75 contracts for undeveloped mines and just last week banned open-pit mining, which she blames for causing extensive environmental damage.
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Beginning with that event, this investigation into the fashion industry's manufacturing practices proceeds to indict its exploitation of workers and its cavalier attitude toward environmental damage.
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Its high concentration of anthocyanin, a strong antioxidant, works to help the skin recover from and protect against environmental damage like pollution, UV damage, and stress.
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Flower officials counter that the dredge digs down less than four inches into the bottom and that the disturbed sediment settles quickly with no environmental damage.
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One example: Kyaukphyu, Myanmar, where a Chinese-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline was pursued in secret, stomped on farmers' property rights and did significant environmental damage.
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The ban is intended, in part, to prevent environmental damage to the monolith, which sits inside a national park that is a Unesco World Heritage site.
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The legal action would seek to hold Shell responsible under Dutch law for its contributions to climate change and all the environmental damage associated with it.
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Though insurance could pay for some of the environmental damage, Indonesian authorities said they believe the captain committed a crime and could face prison time if convicted.
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Since pollution is to blame for the global problem of infertility, one of Gilead's core missions is undoing environmental damage in order to produce more successful births.
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The tradition of presenting flowers to victors ended during the 2016 Rio Olympics as part of a larger mission to limit the environmental damage from the games.
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Intensive commercial farming has also led to increased use of agro chemicals proven to damage children's health and boosted rates of deforestation and environmental damage, she added.
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It asserted that Freeport caused environmental damage worth $13.25 billion, missed royalty payments, cleared thousands of hectares of protected forest and began mining underground without environmental clearance.
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Miner Rio Tinto was excluded in 2008 based on the risk of causing severe environmental damage related to Indonesia's Grasberg mine, the world's second-largest copper mine.
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While tourism creates jobs and wealth, there is growing awareness of its negative impacts, from environmental damage to the destruction of neighbourhoods as residents are priced out.
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Not as disposable items (an approach that's causing huge environmental damage) but as something closer to a car: a useful object that can and should be maintained.
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Activists have long blamed the rapid expansion of palm oil plantations, rampant logging and a wave of dam-building for causing environmental damage and displacing indigenous people.
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Hanford Site employed LoPresti's father, a statistician, who worked on projects to clean up environmental damage left over from the decades-long Cold War nuclear arms race.
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Desperate to fight mounting trash problems but wary of public opposition, China is building new incineration capacity designed to blend into its surroundings and limit environmental damage.
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"The objective is to scrutinize the regions with the highest concentration of illicit activity to contain the expansion of environmental damage," the ministry said in a statement.
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But following the environmental damage, Talvivaara was placed into debt restructuring and the government set up a company called Terrafame to ramp up the mine in 2015.
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Research published in the journal Science this year says that avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to curb environmental damage to the planet.
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The Senate had introduced the additional tax on palm oil used in food to encourage the sector to reduce the environmental damage palm oil plantations can cause.
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It has excluded 156 firms so far, including for producing tobacco and nuclear weapons, causing severe environmental damage, or deriving more than 30% of revenues from coal.
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It has excluded 156 firms so far, including for producing tobacco and nuclear weapons, causing severe environmental damage, or deriving more than 30% of revenues from coal.
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Opinions are split on the possible environmental damage of whale watching tours, but there's no doubt that some of the Pacific Northwest's orcas are in serious trouble.
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In addition to the personal harm and environmental damage caused by the fires, they have taken a toll on tourism, another essential industry for the Australian economy.
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While the movie explores environmental damage, human behavior and the immigrant experience, Damon said "Downsizing" was meant to be a light-hearted take on a novel concept.
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Though they get some credit for being organic, they are still doing a tremendous amount of environmental damage to the lands, waters, and wildlife of the area.
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But the government's waste reduction targets are complicated by a lack of recycling culture or awareness of environmental damage in the developing country of 260 million people.
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Lopez earlier in the day said she is prohibiting open-pit mining, part of a months-long crackdown on the sector she blames for extensive environmental damage.
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"The number-one benefit [of protective styling] is that you're protecting your hair from environmental damage and potential heat and styling damage," celebrity hairstylist Ursula Stephen tells us.
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But they could also save consumers about €20163 billion ($7.6 billion) per year, create 30,000 jobs, and avoid €22 billion ($25.6 billion) in environmental damage and cleanup costs.
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On Monday, Judge Leonam Gondim da Cruz Júnior decided against granting an injunction that would allow Hydro to resume full operations, citing potential environmental damage in the region.
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Previously, Baghdad accorded a specific share to Basra and other oil-producing provinces as compensation for environmental damage from the industry and as a boost to local budgets.
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Yet cars emit carbon dioxide in their wake, which suggests that it would be only fair for drivers to pay taxes to offset the environmental damage they cause.
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It also was fined around $100 million for environmental damage by a court in Kyrgyzstan last year, while another regulator filed a $230 million lawsuit against the company.
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The Southeast Asian nation's mining sector has been under fire by Duterte's government for environmental damage and alleged violations that include building mines in prohibited areas like watersheds.
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They can skew incentives as the wealthy increasingly shift their efforts toward protecting their position in society, and they have been linked to environmental damage and political instability.
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We can have the industrial agriculture system we have now, with all the meat we have now, but there's this externality of enormous cruelty and terrible environmental damage.
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We want to know that they are fully compliant with employment law, that garments have a decent life-span, and that profit is not put before environmental damage.
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He said the richer northern parts of the world owe an "ecological debt" to the poorer southern parts due to the environmental damage the richer nations have caused.
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The Amaravati project, built on greenfield land on the banks of the sacred Krishna River, has been beset by accusations from activist groups of corruption and environmental damage.
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New Delhi (CNN)At least nine protesters were killed Tuesday in clashes with authorities in southern India over a copper smelter that residents argue is causing environmental damage.
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Still, it's hard to imagine that there won't be environmental damage from the estimated five thousand wells that will be required to extract all that oil and gas.
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This is as much a matter of economics as it is environment — in China, estimates place environmental damage costs as high as to 85033 percent of its GDP.
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Despite evidence of environmental damage, the 10 largest English grouse moors were paid more than 3 million pounds ($3.6 million) a year in farm subsidies, the party said.
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But despite its beauty, the city suffers from massive overcrowding, devastating floods, and pollution and other environmental damage from the massive cruise ships that pass through every day.
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In October 2016, a leak in Halden's reactor was detected, which caused the evacuation of its staff, with no injuries sustained and no environmental damage outside the facility.
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Another C$100 million will go toward energy projects through an innovation fund, and C$50 million will fund projects that involve reducing environmental damage from resource extraction.
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The Philippines is the world's top nickel ore supplier but Duterte says miners pay too little tax and not enough to compensate mining communities that suffer environmental damage.
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Local resistance has blocked construction of the new base, partly because of the environmental damage that would come from building a runway in the relatively unspoiled Henoko Bay.
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Across north China, cities are struggling to strike a balance between reversing the environmental damage done by decades of breakneck growth and keeping their heavy industrial economies afloat.
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As president-elect, Bolsonaro said that farmers are excessively fined for environmental damage, and also proposed merging Brazil's environment and agriculture ministries -- an idea he has since shelved.
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The survey by PwC showed that "climate change and environmental damage" were 2.33th in the rankings that CEOs gave as the biggest threats to their companies' growth prospects.
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By the mid-20th century, predictably enough, the Corps was bloated and inefficient, and had earned a reputation for poor planning, uncompleted projects, cost overruns and environmental damage.
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The Aloha State has passed ambitious laws to curb environmental damage, including banning certain sunscreens that can harm coral reefs and committing to the Paris climate accord's goals.
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Though we tend not to think of the entertainment industry as an industry, with all the outputs that that entails, it does a significant amount of environmental damage.
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The measures would also increase fines for environmental damage up to a ceiling of 30 million reais ($9.47 million) and expressly require companies to clean up degraded areas.
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Nevertheless, the growing awareness of the environmental damage caused by the production of all meat is pushing plant-based meats from being a niche business into the mainstream.
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Gas imported from America faces especially stiff opposition because it is associated with the technique known as fracking, which some groups blame for environmental damage like water pollution.
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The suit argued that the Corps failed to properly assess the economic and environmental damage the pipeline could bring to the area, and that construction should be halted.
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It is currently in the third year of a public campaign against smog as it tries to walk back environmental damage caused by three decades of breakneck economic development.
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SLT is an example of a new sort of hydropower project, which floods a smaller area than traditional dams and therefore ought to cause less disruption and environmental damage.
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When he was beginning his career in the early 1970s, awareness of the dangers of environmental damage and the threat posed by climate change was just starting to grow.
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Instead, Clark discovers he's a champion of all aquatic life, disturbed by recent environmental damage in the area, traceable to the town's resident scheming billionaire, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum).
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RIO TINTO Miner Rio Tinto was excluded in 2008 based on the risk of causing severe environmental damage related to Indonesia's Grasberg mine, the world's second-largest copper mine.
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Other government departments have scrambled to respond to Xi's speech, with the Ministry of Natural Resources promising on Monday to establish new land utilization standards to prevent environmental damage.
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Gaden noted that the work funded by the GLRI, in or outside of the commission, is critical in repairing this toxic legacy of environmental damage and resulting fisheries loss.
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Experiments in the North Sea, another hotbed of oil drilling, are showing that capturing and storing carbon dioxide below the seafloor can work without significant leaks or environmental damage.
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The economy is currently growing at an annual rate of about 5 percent, but development can often lead to uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources causing environmental damage and pollution.
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In the near term, legislating new categorical exclusions without scientific basis would lead to serious environmental damage, likely including soil erosion and runoff that contaminates downstream communities' drinking water.
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The formula contains 6% titanium dioxide and 5% zinc oxide to shield the skin from sun damage and an antioxidant complex called senna alata to protect from environmental damage.
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This film promises early on to set itself apart by detailing specific things individuals can do to mitigate the environmental damage, but those suggestions end up being disappointingly few.
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They said it would be irresponsible to move forward on projects that would destroy cultural sites and cause irreversible environmental damage when there's so much uncertainty about the relocation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Danish toymaker Lego will start making several of its products from plant-based plastic this year in a bid to tackle waste and environmental damage.
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Mr. Coelho scoffed at the notion that his soy crops could be causing environmental damage, arguing that imposing environmental regulations in the region would do more harm than good.
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She is concerned about what sulfides from the mines could do, especially to Minnesota's wild-rice crop, which she calls a "canary in the coal mine" for environmental damage.
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The legal action threatened by the groups would seek to establish that Shell is responsible under Dutch law for its contributions to climate change and for associated environmental damage.
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If North Korea perfected that technology, it would help the nation better protect its mobile missiles from environmental damage while being driven around and from fiery exhaust during launch.
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The far-reaching impacts of climate change on companies have investors pressing corporate leaders for action to minimize environmental damage and to maximize disclosure of risks to their businesses.
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"Energy poverty creates environmental damage," Owen Grafham, co-author of Chatham House's Moving Energy Initiative (MEI) report 'Heat, Light and Power for Refugees: Saving Lives, Reducing Costs,' told VICE Impact.
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"What is needed is to regulate and formalize the sector," he said, adding this could lead to better conditions for workers, tax revenue for the government and less environmental damage.
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Mr Finlayson, the minister in charge of negotiations tied to the Treaty of Waitangi, hopes the change will help bring those who do environmental damage to the river to book.
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Electronic waste, such as ink cartridges, batteries and laptops, are packed full of precious metals which can be recycled but, if not properly disposed of, can cause serious environmental damage.
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The office of Colombia's attorney general said last week it was investigating "possible environmental damage" in the area as well as the way contracts for the work had been awarded.
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The fishermen - known as kolis - say the changes will lead to environmental damage, displace coastal communities and hurt the livelihoods of millions who depend on the sea for their survival.
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In a recent, high-profile example, Norway's $900 billion sovereign wealth fund last week decided to exclude U.S. utilities company Duke Energy from its fund over concerns about environmental damage.
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Obviously, there is a spectrum here from lethargic monopoly to cutthroat competition that causes more problems than it's worth (environmental damage in the hopes of cutting costs, fraud, deceit, etc.).
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The tool has been created at a time when palm oil producers are becoming increasingly aware of the potential cost of failures to prevent environmental damage in their supply chains.
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In some sci-fi films, environmental damage finally manifests in a grim reality; in others, our dreams of reaching the stars land right on our laps, in gruesome alien form.
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Watchdog groups fear that once companies like Veolia sign contracts with their municipalities, they can exert powerful control over water systems, exposing residents to rate increases, overbilling and environmental damage.
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Biden's campaign declined to discuss his use of charter flights in detail but said carbon offsets purchased to reduce environmental damage from combusted jet fuel contributed to the high cost.
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Back Market With offices in Paris, New York, Bordeaux and Prague, Back Market is on a mission to reduce waste and environmental damage generated by the production of consumer electronics.
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In 2011, five years after the dam was built, China admitted the project had caused widespread social and environmental damage and promised 124 billion yuan ($18 billion) in extra funding.
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Poor planning and 22010 years of drought have rendered many of them useless and, in some cases, they have contributed to environmental damage in the semi-arid country, experts say.
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But inadequate safety measures led to the deaths of 213 workers, the dam displaced more than one million people, and the environmental damage was considerable, including the destruction of forests.
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A broader "post-tax" measure, based on the difference between consumer prices and estimates of efficient prices (taking into account environmental damage, traffic accidents and so forth), yields higher numbers.
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One reason has been the absence, until fairly recently, of obvious environmental damage threatening individual well-being and the sense of urgency that inspires the public to demand regulatory responses.
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Fund managers have become increasingly reluctant to risk investing in companies linked to fossil fuels or other activities regarded as unsustainable as popular pressure mounts for action to limit environmental damage.
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A United Nations Environmental Program report into oil pollution in Nigeria's Ogoniland said communities should avoid protracted negotiations over access to spill sites as delays result in far greater environmental damage.
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Last year's fires were among the worst in the region's history, with billions of dollars worth of environmental damage, weeks of flight and school disruptions and thousands suffering from respiratory disease.
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These shampoos don't just clean, but they also protect your hair from environmental damage, balance your scalp, and even help you retain the color you just blew your entire paycheck on.
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The environment ministry is trying to create a measure of "green GDP" (roughly, output minus the cost of environmental damage) that could be used to assess the performance of local officials.
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It called for Volkswagen to buy back or fix diesels starting with the 2009 model year, to compensate owners and to pay money to offset the environmental damage it had caused.
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"The family's holdings span the majority of Cambodia's most lucrative business sectors as well as those characterized by high levels of corruption, human rights abuses and environmental damage," the report said.
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Buy it here: Sephora, $34 | Amazon, $48The fruit or vegetable: Blueberry What it does: The blueberries in this bouncy and hydrating cleanser protect against environmental damage and make it smell delicious.
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Meat production has been proven to be a significant source of greenhouse gasses and contributes to other environmental damage by using a huge amount of natural resources like land and water.
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Even though the ban is meant to deter people from visiting the landscape, people have continued to sneak in overnight, according to the AP, creating further environmental damage to the region.
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President Trump's push to position the US as a major exporter of fossil fuels doesn't take into account "the environmental damage and costs, nor how it harms human health," she said.
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Duterte said in September he agreed with the open-pit mining ban given the environmental damage it causes, but would give mining firms time to find other ways to extract minerals.
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Critics, including the national architects association, have questioned the need for the canal and warned it will destroy an 8,500-year-old archaeological site near Istanbul and cause widespread environmental damage.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has released data showing a large increase in penalties against polluters, as well $20 billion in commitments from companies to correct problems that have caused environmental damage.
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Residents accused Texaco of environmental damage stemming from oil exploration in the Amazon rainforest in the 1990s, and a court in the country fined Chevron $8.6 billion in damages in 2011.
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Galarza said the process of assessing environmental damage and levying fines would become more transparent during Kuczynski's five-year term, so companies get a better grasp of the grounds for sanctions.
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The only way to prevent similar disasters, the Global Ocean Commission panel argues, is through a binding international agreement on safety and environmental standards that holds corporations liable for environmental damage.
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"Increases in cancer, birth defects, and other conditions have been associated with war-related environmental damage and toxins" in Iraq, according to researchers with the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
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In April, Iceland became the first major UK supermarket to ban palm oil from its own products, in light of the severe environmental damage caused by increased global demand for the substance.
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"This agreement first and foremost addresses the environmental damage to land and water caused by significant gasoline spills in Shelby County during 2016," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement.
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Even in Germany, where speed junkies flock to the famously unrestricted Autobahn highway network, policymakers are weighing a speed limit of 130 km/h to more effectively reduce transportation-related environmental damage.
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A 2017 report by Indonesia's Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) calculated that Freeport's decades-long operations at the mine in Indonesia's remote easternmost province of Papua had caused environmental damage worth $13.25 billion.
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Access to the Amulsar mine operated by Lydian International has been blocked since last summer by locals and activists worried that it could pollute local water sources and cause irreparable environmental damage.
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Cases where the negative effects of carbon emissions are central, not tagged on to more direct environmental damage, such as oil spills or the release of noxious chemicals, are on the rise.
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A more recent film, "Plastic China", examines the environmental damage caused by the country's plastic-recycling industry, which is dominated by thousands of small-scale outfits that often lack proper pollution controls.
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This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Already under fire for widespread environmental damage, Malaysia's once lucrative bauxite mining industry is facing a likely death knell from neighboring Indonesia's move to allow a resumption of exports.
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The acquisition also serves some of the aims of ChemChina's ultimate shareholder, the Chinese state, of improving food security and agricultural productivity, and reducing the environmental damage from current Chinese farming practices.
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Van der Vaart said he did not know how many pits had been inundated but that the environmental damage would be minimal because the hog waste will be "vastly diluted" by floodwaters.
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"The Trump administration is trying to stifle the public's voice and hide environmental damage to public lands," Ted Zukoski, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
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This news supports recent irrefutable scientific evidence presented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showing that the planet is in the midst of unprecedented human-caused environmental damage.
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But a new report from environmental NGO Global Witness claims there is a dark side to the boom, that the mineral sector is fueling corruption, conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental damage.
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The Greek authorities scrambled on Thursday to clean up fuel leaked by an oil tanker that sank near Athens, putting popular beaches off limits to swimmers and raising fears of environmental damage.
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If North Korea had indeed perfected cold launch technology, it would help the nation better protect its mobile missiles from environmental damage while being driven around, and from fiery exhaust during launch.
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He promised policies the church could get behind: bringing discipline to the government, brokering peace with communist rebels, stopping the environmental damage caused by mining and rewriting labor laws in workers' favor.
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But as scientists warn that we have only a few years to halt irreversible environmental damage – and fashion continues to be a key contributor – it's a matter of getting it right, fast.
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The petrochemical company may have to pay for relocation of thousands of people in the northeastern Brazilian city of Maceio due to environmental damage caused by its mining activities near the city.
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A carbon tax essentially shifts the burden of paying for environmental damage away from us — the American taxpayer — and onto the industry that is polluting our air and fueling these treacherous storms.
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In 2018 about 70% of renewable energy incentives awarded in the region benefited small hydropower projects, the environmentalists said, despite serious environmental damage and limited potential to contribute to the energy supply.
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Another problem is that even going totally vegan can carry a cost—sometimes one with a higher animal body count and more environmental damage due to the way the farming industrial complex works.
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Another dam, also used to store the muddy mining detritus known as tailings and co-owned by Vale and BHP Group, had collapsed in 2015, killing 19 people and wreaking massive environmental damage.
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But this one fits the bill, combining soothing rosewater with a proprietary moisture-retaining complex that improves skin over time and wild indigo extract to calm and reduce visible signs of environmental damage.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's government rejected calls on Tuesday from parliamentarians to introduce a new levy on clothing sales to help tackle labor abuses and environmental damage in the country's fashion industry.
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The government took over the mine last year, and founded Terrafame to run it, after production problems, environmental damage and a drop in nickel prices pushed its owner, Talvivaara, into a debt restructuring.
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Foreign investment is welcomed into the island as it fits with Manila's goal to promote peace and lower income disparities, Dominguez explained, adding that all parties will exercise care to limit environmental damage.
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The combined steps by major consumer companies aim to address criticism that packaging and global transportation causes undue environmental damage, as mountains of plastic waste get dumped in landfill and oceans every year.
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He admits that was a joke, but he wouldn't be surprised to eventually see a milk or meat tax — similar to a soda tax — to pay for the environmental damage caused by methane.
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That means the tankers have to be cleaned before traveling to many foreign ports, which won't admit crude-stained ships for fear of environmental damage to their harbors, port facilities or other vessels.
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Estimating that some 40 percent of land around the world's water sources has suffered degradation from deforestation, development and agriculture, TNC argues that investing in watersheds helps reduce environmental damage and soil erosion.
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In text not marked as still under discussion, it suggested measures to boost industrial efficiency and thereby create emissions savings, to monitor emissions better and to set financial incentives on reducing environmental damage.
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Stalled or failed deals have a greater impact on locals who have to deal with the loss of livelihood and environmental damage, according to a report this month from Swedish campaign group Swedwatch.
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The lawsuit also cites environmental damage caused by the uncontrolled release of 80,000 metric tons of methane, the prime component of natural gas and a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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To meet U.S. energy needs with wind and solar power would require staggering quantities of materials, causing extensive environmental damage, while covering huge swaths of the country with wind turbines and solar photovoltaics.
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"Qayyara clearly shows that environmental damage in conflicts is a humanitarian issue, with acute and potentially long term consequences," said Doug Weir, a manager at the U.K.-based Toxic Remnants of War Project.
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The settlement, first announced in July, includes $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims by the five gulf states and local governments.
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Now, he wrote in his piece, the U.S. should crack down on methane leaks, but also consider the more drastic step of shutting down natural gas drilling entirely to prevent further environmental damage.
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This shift in plans prompted the FAA to step in, reevaluate, and square these new details with the original EIS to see whether there'd be any unaddressed public-safety threats or environmental damage.
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The fines would be for the environmental damage caused by the company's diesel engines, which were designed to fool emissions tests and often exceeded allowable air pollution limits in on-the-road driving.
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The state will get more than $1 billion of the money Volkswagen is spending on projects to compensate for the environmental damage it caused, though CARB will not receive any of that money.
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Though China has quickly developed, the West has also greatly benefited from this partnership through the exploitation of many Chinese basic rights in terms of labor, environmental damage, corruption, among other such issues.
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Last month, Equinor made public its environmental plan, which experts said showed that a major oil spill in the Bight could cause environmental damage along several thousand miles of the southern Australia coast.
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In a now-deleted tweet following its annual meeting of the world's richest people, the World Economic Forum posted a misleading infographic warning of the environmental damage caused by sending "Thank You" emails.
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This is an area with "universally unique environmental qualities" the Council on Ethics said, adding that "there is an unacceptable risk of the company contributing to or being responsible for severe environmental damage".
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On Friday he said the government will draft a new law for the country's mining industry, which he said pays too little in tax and not enough in compensation for any environmental damage.
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It shuns shares in companies which cause severe environmental damage but has resisted using its investment clout to promote green causes because of the risk of conflicts of interest or politicizing monetary policy.
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The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 2100 says that coal companies have to clean up old mines and reverse their environmental damage, costs which can run to the hundreds of millions.
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"This is a very serious situation since, at this stage, aside from the obvious environmental damage, no one knows the consequences this pollution could have had or could have on public health," he said.
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The European Commission said its proposal would seek to cut marine litter in half for the ten most prominent items and avoid environmental damage estimated at over $250 billion over the next dozen years.
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Nigeria generates huge amounts of plastic waste, and according to 2017 Ocean Atlas report, Nigeria is ranked number 11 in the world for plastic pollution, posing health risks to citizens and causing environmental damage.
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Many of the drones are currently used by the department to help with combating forest fires, monitoring dams and floods, inspecting land for property and environmental damage due to erosion, and monitoring endangered species.
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While critics call it a brutal practice and a contributor to accelerating environmental damage, Inuit activists like Tanya Tagaq have fought back against that perception and pushed for a new conversation around the hunt.
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The much-hyped jatropha crop saw millions of dollars and vast tracts of land squandered, while the production of palm oil has been widely criticized for association with environmental damage and human rights abuses.
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The initiative, Treaty Rights at Risk, suggests the vulnerability of salmon habitat to climate change is part of a larger story of environmental damage done by U.S. dams, agriculture, and other land-use practices.
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The federal government in Canberra is spending A$2000 billion ($21 billion) buying up and cancelling farmers' water entitlements in a bid to reduce salinity and repair other environmental damage stretching back a century.
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Jerusalem (CNN)A group of local Israeli leaders have warned Israel and the United States that the sewage crisis in Gaza could lead to the spread of disease and cause long-term environmental damage.
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On Tuesday, the head of the center-left Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti said his party would propose measures to ensure that any buyer would not be liable for environmental damage caused under previous management.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is preparing to sue a unit of Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) over alleged environmental damage from the Montara oil spill in 21.2945, the country's Coordinating Maritime Affairs Ministry said.
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Independent analyses suggest coal and nuclear bailouts would have substantial costs, including $85033 billion to $70 billion over two years in increased costs to customers and $4 billion to $9 billion in environmental damage.
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But there were ways to make the shift look expensive in the short to mid-term, especially since the prices of the fuel, food, and materials we use do not reflect their environmental damage.
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Given that some scientific models suggest that climate change and rising sea levels will yield more powerful storms, or at least more environmental damage from storm surges, this is an important area to research.
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While tourism can be an effective way for developing nations to spur economic growth, the industry can lead to environmental damage and crowd out sectors that could offer more sustainable employment, Foreign Policy reported.
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MANILA, March 13 (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday it may be "worthwhile" for Environment Secretary Regina Lopez to reinforce a ban on mining given the environmental damage that producers have caused.
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At the same time, Nigeria faces a huge task to repair the environmental damage caused by oil extraction in the Niger Delta, which has contaminated water supplies and soils as a result of spills.
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The city's air shed traps pollutants from gas cars, leading to local smog; meanwhile, electricity is drawn from a clean grid in places like Nevada, so the environmental damage is both remote and minimal.
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" A transcript of the settlement proceedings revealed that the CCC found "that although the construction was not insignificant, the environmental damage from the wedding-related construction work was less serious than we had originally feared.
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In China, smog has become a major source of public discontent and Beijing declared a "war on pollution" five years ago, seeking to mitigate the environmental damage done during four decades of breakneck economic growth.
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If cryptocurrencies are truly going to become the money of tomorrow, then we'll absolutely need to grapple with the environmental damage caused by this major energy suck (assuming the price of bitcoin continues to climb).
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HOFFMAN: I think there were some observers there, but we also know that Chinese seismologists assessed that the site was really no longer able to be used without great risk of environmental damage in China.
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There are plenty to highlight — lack of transparency, contributions to corruption, unsustainable debt, environmental damage, bias toward Chinese firms — and many countries that have signed BRI cooperation documents have found the experience disappointing, even painful.
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From the halt in monitoring of uranium on the Colorado River and toxic algae in Florida, to the trash overflows and vandalism at national parks across the country, the shutdown is already causing environmental damage.
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To reverse the environmental damage, the Dutch government has provided about half of the project's budget of 78 million euros, about $13 million, with the remainder coming from a mixture of public and private sources.
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The leak was initially thought to be contained to the area of the shipwreck, but it soon expanded to the coastline known as the Athens Riviera, where it raised fears of more widespread environmental damage.
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Patients are right to fear doing environmental damage by flushing — the Drug Enforcement Administration has stated it can affect the water supply — but it's still a better option than leaving unused pills around the house.
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And burning fossil fuels is a huge source of environmental damage, not just from climate change but also from local air pollution, which is a major health hazard we don't do nearly enough to limit.
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The rapid felling threatens worsening erosion and environmental damage in the country, and has provoked uprisings by local communities, who have not received promised roads and other assistance as part of timber extraction deals, they say.
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Koh Yen Boon, a durian seller in Kuantan, said his sales volume dropped by about 30 percent last year due to lower output, driven by environmental damage and as more land was given over to mining.
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For instance, acid rain in the Northeastern US, which was causing strong environmental damage in the Adirondacks in the 1980s, was largely due to pollution coming from Midwestern states like Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan, Deans says.
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Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's two largest producers, had said the plan, which was aimed at encouraging the sector to reduce the environmental damage palm oil plantations can cause, was discriminatory and broke international trade rules.
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Duke Energy and its subsidiaries Duke Energy Carolinas, Duke Energy Progress and Energy Progress Inc were excluded "based on an assessment of the risk of severe environmental damage", the central bank's board said in a statement.
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Green groups and land owners in the Karoo, a vast semi-desert wilderness stretching across the heart of South Africa, have argued that exploring for shale by fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, would cause huge environmental damage.
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As pollution and environmental damage linked to the rise in plastic waste became known in countries like Malaysia and Thailand during 2018, protests led to tighter waste regulations and import restrictions by authorities, the study found.
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Some tax money will go to fix environmental damage caused by illegal grows, and some will go to the University of California at San Diego to study the effects of pot on motor skills and health.
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After a brief negotiation, the Gerharts refused to sign, because they felt that the $30,000 the company ultimately offered was not enough compensation for the environmental damage and safety risks they believe the pipeline will create.
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However, Ms Rousseff said there was no limit or ceiling for how much the company would have to pay to fix the socio-economic and environmental damage of the dam's collapse in Brazil's Minas Gerais state.
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That mine has remained closed since then, with Rio Tinto relinquishing ownership last year, while mining elsewhere on the island has been banned since the 1970s due to concerns over revenue-sharing and potential environmental damage.
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A rule of thumb in securities fraud settlements is that the penalty should match the harm caused to the victims, in this case the owners of cars with the defeat device along with any environmental damage.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit by villagers in India seeking to hold a Washington-based international financial institution responsible for environmental damage they blame on a power plant it financed.
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From there, he carved a career as a progressive lawyer on issues that appealed to him — human rights, territorial sovereignty and cross-border environmental damage, among others — and almost always on the side of the afflicted.
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Buy it here: Amazon, $26 | Sephora, $40The fruit or vegetable: Blackberry, strawberry leaf What it does: The cream's Alpine Berry Complex is made up of naturally moisturizing wild strawberry sprouts and hydrating, environmental damage-protecting blackberries.
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"A central feature of [Trump's] agenda is environmental damage: making the air dirtier and exposing people to more toxic chemicals," wrote researchers Francesca Dominici and David Cutler in the Journal of the American Medical Association Forum.
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Nicole Donaghy, an oil and gas organizer at Dakota Resource Council, the same group dedicated to monitoring environmental damage in the region to which DeWitt belongs, collaborated on a study with Duke University earlier this year.
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Natural resources and environment minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the ban has been extended to June 30, to give the government time to finalize a regulatory framework to prevent a repeat of the environmental damage.
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In return for that, Philippine and Chinese fishermen could operate in the waters around Scarborough Shoal, but not inside the vast lagoon of the shoal because of environmental damage from overfishing in those waters, he said.
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Some people fear that overpopulation contributes to climate change and much more environmental damage, as well as fearing that it might not be good for a child to be brought into the world at this time.
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Late last week, the Trump administration published a climate change report with an incredibly stark warning: If significant steps aren't taken to rein in global warming, environmental damage could disrupt supply chains, exports and crop yields.
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In addition to organized crime funding, the OECD report warns that illegal mining in Colombia is associated with serious human rights abuses including child labor, forced labor and sex trafficking, not to mention significant environmental damage.
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But scientists say the corals are on death row because of climate change and environmental damage -- prompting the Australian government to pledge almost $380 million for improving the water quality and restoring the reef this year.
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SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA (Reuters) - Kayakers from across Europe took to Bosnia's Vrbas river on Monday to protest against a boom in dam construction across the western Balkans that campaigners say threaten to cause irreparable environmental damage.
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HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Hundreds of Israeli surfers in black skull-and-crossbones shirts took to the waves on Friday in what they said was a record-breaking protest against potential environmental damage from off-shore gas development.
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And at the Rubin Museum of Art, a few blocks uptown, and upland, the museum lost power—a necessity for preserving the artifacts from environmental damage—and the backup generators weren't enough to keep the facility running.
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For one thing, there is little agreement on what these costs really are; the government estimates the environmental damage from climate change, in dollars per ton of carbon emissions, at $37 a ton; other estimates are higher.
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Slow adoption in Europe is in part due to public concern that GM crops cause environmental damage, such as decreased insect and plant populations, and human health problems on consumption, such as higher cancer risks and allergies.
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U.S. Attorney Billy Williams said the state has a "significant overproduction" problem and that he would prioritize enforcement of overproduction, interstate trafficking, organized crime and cases involving underage marijuana use and environmental damage from illicit pot farms.
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Duterte said last month he agreed with banning open-pit mining in the world's top nickel ore exporter, given the environmental damage it causes, but would give mining firms time to find other ways to extract minerals.
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MANILA, April 27 (Reuters) - Philippine Environment Secretary Regina Lopez said on Thursday she will ban open-pit mining in the country, part of her months-long crackdown on the sector she believes has caused extensive environmental damage.
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The widespread collateral damage of the illegal drug trade—the exploitation, environmental damage, criminalization, corruption, murderous gang feuds, addiction, and needless overdoses—are all evidence that the way it's currently being handled does not appear to work.
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The cost will be measured in trillions of dollars and in sweeping societal and environmental damage, including mass die-off of coral reefs and animal species, flooded coastlines, intensified droughts, food shortages, mass migrations and deeper poverty.
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Malaysians living in Johor have complained of large numbers of Chinese people snapping up properties in Forest City, besides concerns of environmental damage, a glut in the property market, and the impact of land reclamation on fisheries.
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We don't actually see any of the environmental damage or social disruption, and there are no succinct summations of the timeline or the issues as in a traditional documentary, a decision that costs the film some urgency.
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The proposed deal with Samarco, which will have the financial guarantee of Vale and BHP, will create a foundation to manage recovery, restoration and compensation funds and manage the long-term repair of environmental damage, Ramos said.
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The common assumption is that legalizing recreational marijuana in California would discourage this sort of large-scale illegal marijuana cultivation on public lands, and, as consequence, the resulting environmental damage responsible for poisoning wildlife, among other things.
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The government took over the mine in 2015, and set up a company called Terrafame to build it up after production problems, environmental damage and weak nickel prices pushed former owner Talvivaara into a debt restructuring in 2013.
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However, the extra tax aimed at encouraging the sector to reduce the environmental damage palm oil plantations can cause, has been sharply reduced from an initial proposal in January and now excludes oils produced in a sustainable way.
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Fashion Vs. Nature Isn't NewThough fashion's impact on the environment feels like an immediate and urgent issue, thanks to fast-fashion and a global fashion industry speeding up environmental damage, air and water pollution is, obviously, nothing new.
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SCOURGE OF SMOG In China, smog has become a major source of public discontent and Beijing declared a "war on pollution" five years ago, seeking to mitigate the environmental damage done during four decades of breakneck economic growth.
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The switch from ephemeral flowers to long-lasting trinkets is a small part of the Olympic organizing committee's bigger mission to limit the environmental damage from the 230 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a Rio 22016 spokesperson told Mashable.
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Since the 1990s, the USDA has regulated which genetically modified crops can head to market, not because of fears of harm to human health but because of fear that crops with foreign DNA could accidentally cause environmental damage.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday accused some miners of funding efforts to destabilize his government as he talked about a possible plan to impose a ban on mining given the environmental damage producers have caused.
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While some indigenous leaders believe pipelines and other energy projects can be beneficial for their communities because they bring jobs and new sources of revenue, others contend that the risks of leaks and environmental damage are too high.
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After big protests in 2012 and 2013, when riot police raided a protest camp injuring more than 100 people, then opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi led an inquiry that recommended compensating the residents and minimizing environmental damage.
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Pavol, 44, a customary landowner from Pomio on the island province of East New Britain, said he could not stand by as logging companies caused environmental damage to the land held under customary tenure by his Mengen people.
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The film calls out the sizable minority of Republican lawmakers who flatly deny the broad scientific evidence that human activity is causing environmental damage, and names presidential candidate Donald Trump and former candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
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Though she has never been much involved in politics, promises about coal and its benefits brought back memories of a childhood trip through Appalachian coal country, where the poverty and environmental damage stayed in her memory, she said.
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In a speech earlier this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to deploy the full weight of the state to reverse decades of environmental damage, forcing several ministries and regulators to draw up their own plans to fight pollution.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider reviving a lawsuit by Indian villagers seeking to hold a Washington-based international financial institution responsible for widespread environmental damage they blame on a power plant it financed.
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CANBERRA, Australia – An Australian state government has decided to legally protect rather than kill thousands of wild horses, infuriating scientists who argue the feral species is doing severe environmental damage to the country&aposs iconic Snowy Mountains alpine region.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican mining and transport firm Grupo Mexico said on Monday that Mexico's Navy Ministry reported it did not find environmental damage from the company's sulfuric acid spill at its Guaymas facility on the Gulf of California.
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International lawmakers should agree a fifth Geneva convention that would include wildlife safeguards in conflict areas, control the spread of weapons, and make armed forces accountable for environmental damage they cause, according to a letter in the journal Nature.
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Student's at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara have been camping on the construction site for 55 days, arguing that the construction work will disrupt the 4-hectare (10 acre) green area's ecosystem and cause environmental damage.
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Attempts to show massive environmental damage to the water table from acid runoff have nearly all been stymied, despite multiple attempts to force coal operations to pay for the costly cleanup required following the closing of a surface mine.
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The Bille and Ogale communities, whose livelihoods are mainly based around fishing and farming, are pushing for compensation for environmental damage to the region: They say they have not had clean drinking water since 1989 because of oil spills.
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The United States had become the largest exporter of waste that failed checks, the customs said, but again it said that the steps were not targeting particular countries and were based on analysis of the risk of environmental damage.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared unlikely to revive a lawsuit by villagers in India seeking to hold a Washington-based international financial institution responsible for environmental damage they blame on a power plant it financed.
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In a rare display of concern for the environment, the Chinese government also cited the environmental damage of the mines, attributing "landslides, clogged rivers, environmental pollution emergencies and even major accidents and disasters" to its rare earth mining industry.
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The deal, which was negotiated by federal agencies, the State of California and lawyers representing consumers, also requires the company to provide restitution for the environmental damage it has caused, in part by underwriting efforts to develop cleaner vehicles.
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That puts worry about climate change only slightly behind fears about large-scale environmental damage and the threat of politically motivated violence escalating into war, according to the Global Challenges Foundation, which commissioned the Global Catastrophic Risks 2017 report.
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Peter Thomas Roth Un-Wrinkle Night is designed to support natural cell turnover, repair environmental damage, and minimize the appearance of pores and wrinkles, all while you snooze, so you end up with beautifully soft, smooth, and radiant skin.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scientists say a recently discovered area of peatland straddling the two Congos contains 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 20 years of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and must be protected to prevent major environmental damage.
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It is a radical example of tackling climate change by cutting the use of fossil fuels, offering a glimpse of how the world could stay within warming limits which U.N. scientists say are needed to avoid significant environmental damage.
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But biologists say the third runway will compound the environmental damage of high-speed ferry traffic and other infrastructure projects, including a nearly completed bridge and tunnel crossing that will link Hong Kong and Macau to the Chinese mainland.
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It's often calculated from the price they extract from the public in terms of environmental damage or health care costs, though the countries that have already implemented this measure would need to hike up the cost, per the report.
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The move comes as consumer goods companies seek to deal with criticism that packaging and transporting goods across the world causes undue environmental damage, as millions of tonnes of plastic waste end up in landfills and in the oceans.
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"These partial settlements announced today exact a stiff price from Volkswagen for its deception of consumers and the environmental damage it has caused in New York and across the country," Schneiderman said last month, noting the state's ongoing investigation.
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A decade ago, Bentley was pursuing a bio-diesel strategy to provide its well-heeled customers with the power they expected from the brand while avoiding environmental damage or negative exposure to more stringent fuel economy and emissions standards.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's top administrative court on Friday began hearings that could be long and contentious about proposals to drill for oil using the technique known as fracking, hailed for sharply boosting supplies but criticized for causing environmental damage.
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However, Mourad's preliminary findings, which will likely be published early next year, challenge the notion that statewide recreational legalization might eliminate illegal weed grows and, by extension, wide-scale environmental damage occurring on public lands in Oregon and beyond.
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BOGOTA, June 7 (Reuters) - Colombia's top administrative court on Friday began hearings that could be long and contentious about proposals to drill for oil using the technique known as fracking, hailed for sharply boosting supplies but criticized for causing environmental damage.
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An open letter signed by 24 prominent scientists from around the world and published this week in the journal Nature calls for a new Geneva Convention that would hold governments responsible for the environmental damage their militaries inflict in war zones.
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Such alternative meats offer "a far more efficient way" to feed demand for tasty protein while cutting environmental damage, said Bruce Friedrich, executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), which supports alternative meat companies and lobbies on their behalf.
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While China's pursuit of strong growth targets over the years has helped lift the global economy from recession after the financial crisis, its corporate and local government debt has soared, regional economic disparities have widened and environmental damage has worsened.
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A number of groups have pursued in recent years cases against Shell in courts in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands over claims related oil spills and environmental damage, claiming they cannot get a fair hearing in Nigeria.
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The underwater portion of Line 5 has long been a bone of contention between Enbridge and the state of Michigan, which says a leak from the twin 66-year-old pipelines would cause catastrophic environmental damage to the Great Lakes.
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Under the terms of these comprehensive general liability policies, the insurer, in this case, the American International Group, was obligated to pay for the cleanup of any environmental damage that was deemed sudden and accidental during the time of the coverage.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he would soon halt mining in the Southeast Asian nation because of the environmental damage it has caused, renewing his threat made nearly two years ago to shut down the industry completely.
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Engelman recommends this serum from Derm Institute for its hydrating power, as well as for its ability to repair and protect, thanks to a ceramide complex, vitamins, and antioxidants, which plump fine lines and combat free radicals from environmental damage.
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The structure of the 45,000 bpd heavy oil hydrocracker, called the H-Oil unit, was heavily damaged in a blaze on Thursday and efforts to limit environmental damage from fighting the fire are contributing to the flooding around the HCU.
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After big protests in 2012 and 2013 against the mine, when riot police raided a protest camp injuring more than 100 people, then opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi led an inquiry that recommended compensating the residents and minimizing environmental damage.
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To learn more about the demographic trends of privatization, read Food & Water Watch's most recent report on water; to advocate against environmental damage caused by poor water governance, interact with The Nature Conservancy's resources on watershed areas and water conservation.
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The ministry said in a statement that it had asked the State Defense Council, which represents the government in legal matters, to investigate the incident and initiate legal action against Marine Harvest with the aim of repairing the environmental damage.
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ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker, said on Monday it was scrapping a deal to buy Ilva's huge plant in the southern city of Taranto after Rome reneged on a pledge to grant immunity from prosecution over environmental damage at the site.
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ArcelorMittal said on Monday it was abandoning a deal to buy Ilva's huge steel works in the southern city of Taranto after Rome reneged on a pledge to give it immunity from prosecution over environmental damage at the heavily polluting plant.
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It is a really good vegetable oil, but the fact is, it has been grown in a way that's caused a lot of environmental damage and has also impacted communities in the workers that have been employed to harvest the material.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia estimates it will cost A$93 million ($72.68 million) to begin the clean-up of environmental damage at the bankrupt Yabulu nickel refinery in the country's northeast near the Great Barrier Reef, local media said on Wednesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Palm oil producers will set up a joint fund to counter critics of the industry, a Malaysian government official said on Tuesday, amid growing scrutiny of a commodity which is accused of causing widespread environmental damage.
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He was the president of a convenience store chain — making key strategic decisions — that filed for bankruptcy protection and was assessed penalties of $28.4 million by the State of Indiana for environmental damage, caused primarily by leaking underground storage tanks.
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The ruling came after the government sought to respond to an international outcry by issuing an updated version of the Renca decree that more broadly outlined steps to mitigate environmental damage, safeguard the rights of indigenous communities and retain protected areas.
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A five-mile-long, swinging-gate structure in the Netherlands, built after a deadly storm in the 1950s, has both curbed flooding and caused environmental damage, changing the ecology of estuaries and marshlands, as has the Thames Barrier in London.
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For decades, overseas subsidiaries have acted as a shield for extractive companies even while human rights advocates say they have chronicled a long history of misbehavior, including environmental damage, the violent submission of protesters and the forced evictions of indigenous people.
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While tourism can be an effective way to spur economic growth in developing nations, especially on islands with few natural resources, the industry can lead to environmental damage and crowd out sectors with longer-term prospects, Foreign Policy's Geert Vansintjan reported.
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Meat production is a leading cause of climate change, experts say, and the growing demand for pork and beef in China has fueled much of that environmental damage, from water shortages and heat waves to deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
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But Professor Weitzman demonstrated that such prevailing cost-benefit analyses understated the small but nevertheless credible risks that worst-case environmental damage posed to the world and its economy, from its agricultural production to its delivery of goods and services.
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The journalist, Philip Jacobson, 30, who works for the nonprofit news site Mongabay and is known for exposing environmental damage and corporate misconduct, was arrested on the island of Borneo after attending a public meeting between officials and indigenous leaders.
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The proposed additional levy, aimed at reflecting the environmental damage palm oil plantations can cause, has been cut to 90 euros per tonne from 300 euros initially, but would still nearly double the current vegetable oil tax of 104 euros.
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Gabriel noted that proponents of fracking tout the economic advantages of extracting previously inaccessible oil and gas and opponents warn of health risks and environmental damage, but he said the cases did not hinge on deciding if either side was correct.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's biggest yoghurt maker Danone and food packaging giant Tetra Pak are among companies leading a global scheme to reduce plastic waste, launched on Tuesday, as public concern rises over the environmental damage caused by rubbish.
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The country's latest five-year plan (a quaint reminder of the days when the central leadership pulled more levers) for the first time makes local officials personally liable for causing environmental damage, even if it is discovered only after they have left office.
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One recent study put the gap between what fossil fuels (not just gas, of course) do cost and what they should cost, given the environmental damage they inflict, at over $5 trillion, or more than 6 percent of global GDP, per year.
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Buying at licensed dispensaries rather than through dealers on street corners will keep consumers safer, undercut drug-trafficking organisations, and give the state's coffers a boost that can be put towards preventing substance abuse and repairing environmental damage from illegal cannabis farming.
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Low-income communities typically suffer the brunt of environmental damage because they lack the "economic and political clout necessary to make their case and defend themselves" so they're more likely to become locations of "these pollution streams and waste sites," Gore said.
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By being divested from companies that cause severe environmental damage, for example some coal mining firms and those that fell rainforests, the fund earned 0.78 of a percentage point more than if it had stayed invested in those companies, the report said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of formal property deeds is causing conflict, greater deforestation and environmental damage, researchers said on Tuesday.
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"The Peruvian Government must suspend the direct negotiations with companies until the right to free, prior and informed consent is guaranteed, and all environmental damage has been remedied," Tuncak and Tauli-Corpuz said in a statement from the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Sauer, who is retired, reportedly spoke of environmental damage, vandalism, off-road driving and financial losses to the park, and warned those gathered that the government could shut down again in February if Congress does not pass a long-term funding bill.
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The plethora of demands raised by protesters on the streets of Chile's cities in the past two weeks have included calls for more equal access to the country's natural resources and an end to environmental damage by industries from mining to chemicals.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he agreed with banning open-pit mining in the world's top nickel ore exporter given the environmental damage it causes but would give mining firms time to find other ways to extract minerals.
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China is in the fifth year of a war on pollution to reverse the environmental damage of four decades of breakneck economic growth and last year cut concentrations of hazardous particles known as PM2.5 by an average of 9.3 percent in 338 cities.
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But Greece's government revoked its permit in August, saying the tests for a so-called flash-melting method the company planned to use to ensure there would be no environmental damage did not take place on the spot, but rather outside Greece.
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"I understand there was no impropriety at all and my lawyers will appeal at the opportune moment," he said, adding that while the ruling found issues with the protection plan, it did not indicate that there had been environmental damage or personal gain.
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"Working with companies, consumers and communities, the partnership will initially explore and promote solutions that help drive sustainable practices and consumer choices in areas including; supporting local people, protecting wildlife, tackling climate change and environmental damage, and alleviating over-tourism," the palace said.
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Bill Griffin will be interim C.E.O. and Mike Johnson interim C.F.O. (Bloomberg) • The Trump administration has published data showing a large increase in penalties against polluters, as well as $20 billion in commitments from companies to correct problems that have cause environmental damage.
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More recently, under Mr. Tillerson's tenure, Exxon Mobil's offshore facilities have been attacked by militants in the Niger Delta who contend that the nation's oil wealth overwhelmingly benefits a small circle of Nigerian elites, yet causes broad environmental damage like oil spills.
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Lee Botts was 803 years old, a child of northwest Oklahoma and already a keen observer of the region's violent dust storms when, in the depths of the Depression, she had her first lesson in taking sensible measures to fix environmental damage.
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"They're in total violation — we're going to be giving them a notice very soon," the president said, indicating that the city could be put on notice by the Environmental Protection Agency within a week that its homelessness problem was causing environmental damage.
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While the 28500th Circuit Court's majority ultimately ruled the kids lacked standing to sue, the panel did not dispute their central claim: that the government had a hand in the rising levels of carbon emissions, which has led to severe environmental damage.
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While the 9th Circuit court's majority ultimately ruled the kids lacked standing to sue, the panel did not dispute their central claim: that the government had a hand in the rising levels of carbon emissions, which has led to severe environmental damage.
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" He criticized Beijing's Belt and Road initiative - to link China by sea and land through an infrastructure network with southeast and central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa - for "known problems with corruption, debt distress, environmental damage, and lack of transparency.
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The same principal must apply to the Island of Culebra, where the same EPA report concluded that it could take upwards of $84 million and more than 20 years to mitigate the massive environmental damage suffered at the hands of the DoD.
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Thomas D. Allman, the sheriff of Mendocino County, one of the three counties in the Emerald Triangle, said Thursday that investigating marijuana cultivation was not a high priority, unless it was "out of control" or involved other crimes, such as the environmental damage.
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Opdyke's work feels exceedingly personal, a kind of vision board for environmental anxiety, and the biblical nature of the plagues he illustrates are only slightly hyperbolic when one considers the lasting environmental damage to which our current course commits the entire world.
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At the same time, the company learned just how hard it can be to operate in a tribal society where minerals like gold and copper are abundant — but so is corruption, angry landowners, and activists increasingly fearful about the environmental damage caused by mining.
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Hyperloop One is betting heavily on the strategy of piggybacking off existing right-of-way permits for rail developments, so that it doesn't have to go through the costly, time-consuming process of showing that building the system wouldn't cause disruption or environmental damage.
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A major report released in October by a panel of the world's leading scientists says that the planet will experience severe environmental damage—wildfires, hurricanes, droughts and floods—that could top $54 trillion by 2040 unless there's a big downward shift in carbon dioxide emissions.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Golf's return to the Olympic Games next month for the first time in 112 years has been marred by the absence of the sport's leading players and a court battle over potential environmental damage resulting from a new course in Brazil.
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In the European Union, the world's second-largest palm oil importer, buyers are avoiding the oil because of concerns of alleged environmental damage from palm cultivation, while the Washington-Beijing trade war has caused uncertainty over demand potential in the third-largest market in China.
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Jonathan Cohen, acting permanent representative of the United States at the United Nations, last month slammed China's attempt to get Belt and Road language into a resolution on Afghanistan, saying it had "known problems with corruption, debt distress, environmental damage, and lack of transparency".
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In India, for example, the Self Employed Women's Association has helped some 30,000 salt miners, most of them women, change the energy source for their pumps from diesel to solar, which has cut their costs, reduced environmental damage and boosted local development, she said.
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Half the refugee children are not in school (which are plagued by overcrowding), power shortages produce less than half the needed electricity, only one-third of households have access to clean water, and the environmental damage from lack of sewage treatment is a disaster.
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Separately, Milan prosecutors said they had opened a dossier to decide whether there were grounds to start a criminal investigation into possible job losses and environmental damage at the plant, which employs around 8,200 workers, with thousands more jobs depending indirectly on the site.
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This year, Davos elites were searching for a middle ground where they can still claim globalization's net positives while also addressing its divisive consequences, especially its race-to-the-bottom economics that limits the incomes and opportunities of ordinary workers and unleashes unregulated environmental damage.
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The revenue is earmarked for the study of medical marijuana, for the California Highway Patrol to develop procedures to determine driver impairment due to marijuana consumption, for youth education on drugs, and for the prevention of environmental damage from marijuana production, among other programs.
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Computer modeling by the British oil company BP, which withdrew in 2016 from its plan to drill in the Bight, projected that an accident similar to the Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010 could cause environmental damage along a wide stretch of the southern Australian coastline.
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The verdict makes it likely that no one will be held criminally responsible for one of the worst nuclear accidents in history — a catastrophe that led to a global backlash against nuclear power and created environmental damage that will haunt Japan for generations to come.
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The verdict makes it likely that no one will be held criminally responsible for one of the worst nuclear accidents in history — a catastrophe that led to a global backlash against nuclear power and created environmental damage that will haunt Japan for generations to come.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Environmental damage caused by man-made activities is having a devastating toll on human health, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of millions of premature deaths due to air and water pollution by 2050 if action was not taken.
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The process, which cannot be blocked by the Democratic minority, has already been used to kill off a rule requiring coal companies to repair environmental damage to rivers as well as one that would have required energy companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments.
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"The real issue could yet prove to be a third factor in China – the inability of government to address the environmental damage caused by the last 30 years of rampant growth," Bill Blain, strategist at brokerage services firm Mint Partners, said in a research note Wednesday.
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In a separate case heard at the court earlier on Friday, Nicaragua was ordered to pay Costa Rica nearly $379,000 dollars - less than it had asked for - in reparations for environmental damage to parts of its wetlands at the mouth of the disputed San Juan river.
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Up to $10,000 cash, plus a buyback or a fix On top of compensation to individual owners, Volkswagen will be required to contribute $2.7 billion to a fund to undo environmental damage caused by the cheating vehicles and $2 billion to developing zero-emission vehicle technology.
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Conte's coalition has come under heavy pressure as it battles to save thousands of jobs in an area with some of the highest levels of unemployment in Italy and at the same time ensure a clean-up of decades of environmental damage from the sprawling Ilva plant.
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But she had struggled at the hearing to explain the legal basis for requiring nickel miners that remove their ore stockpiles to set aside an additional 2 million pesos ($40,000) per hectare of disturbed land on top of funds already set aside to repair environmental damage.
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Brownell helped community members file a complaint in 2012 alleging environmental damage and human rights violations by Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a Southeast Asia-based agro-industrial company that had signed a deal with the state to lease 543,600 acres of land for palm oil production.
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Jeffrey McCrary, an American fish biologist who lives in Nicaragua and worked on the study, supports the project, saying Mr. Wang's company will have to provide money to clean up environmental damage already caused by deforestation, poor land management, crop fumigation and general dumping into Lake Nicaragua.
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It's stock was excluded from the Norwegian fund's portfolio because of "the risk of severe environmental damage" resulting from the building of a coal-fired power plant close to the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, in Bangladesh, the fund's ethics watchdog said in a statement.
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But mayors and governors — many of them in states that supported President-elect Donald J. Trump — say they are equally determined to continue the policies and plans they have already adopted to address climate change and related environmental damage, regardless of what they see from Washington.
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The attacks are likely born out of resentment over amnesty payments drying up and an anti-corruption campaign that has disrupted traditional patronage, as well as concern about environmental damage and the long-held belief the Delta region does not get an equitable share of oil revenues, he said.
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Read more: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry just took a big step in establishing their own royal legacy away from Prince William and Kate Middleton"Environmental damage has been treated as a necessary by-product of economic growth," Prince Harry said on Instagram upon announcing the theme for July.
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Even more concerning might be the fact that many minerals (like lithium, aluminum and thorium) vital to making vehicles needed to meet the current Obama 28503 standard are mined under the Ocean by China, Russia, Brazil and other foreign countries and many experts are already concerned about environmental damage.
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New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said in a statement issued with the 51-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court that the discharge left behind widespread environmental damage and caused substantial economic harm to residents, farmers and local businesses for which the state has not been compensated.
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Australia is a country where environmental damage is obvious, in the form of the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic caused by use of CFCs decades ago, the steady bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef from warming, carbon-dioxide-acidified seas, and the ever more prevalent bushfires.
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The avocado boom has caused environmental damage — some of Michoacán's pine forests have been thinned out for avocado orchards — but it has been good for Americans gorging on guacamole in wintertime and Mexican farmers fending off the urge to join the drug trade or immigrate to the United States.
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"The markets know neither how to make the assumptions that allow their smooth running - social coexistence, honesty, trust, safety and security, laws, and so on - nor how to correct those effects and forces that are harmful to human society - inequality, asymmetries, environmental damage, social insecurity, and fraud," it said.
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The ADB loan to the four cities will be used in a project worth a total $1 billion that is designed to support the development of small- to medium-sized enterprises and help tackle environmental damage caused by decades of coal mining, the bank said in a statement.
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For the first time in the survey's 10-year outlook, the top five global risks in terms of likelihood were all environmental, with extreme weather events, human-made environmental damage and disasters and major biodiversity loss and natural disasters from earthquakes to tsunamis all the likeliest risks in 2020.
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Drawing from the research of Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway in "Merchants of Doubt" (2010), O'Connor and Weatherall compare industry-sponsored campaigns questioning environmental damage to the strategic skepticism of tobacco companies, which disputed the link between smoking and lung cancer by insisting that the link wasn't utterly definitive.
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They also knew the hourly emissions profiles for the five target pollutants at 1,486 power plants across the U.S. So for each county they knew how the grid responded when an EV plugged in, which told them how much environmental damage that car produced at the power plant.
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And you guessed it; not everyone on social media was impressed with the statement-making exercise that marked the 40th anniversary of "Anarchy in the U.K."Â From accusations of privileged wastefulness to criticism of the environmental damage such a stunt might cause, critics thought the whole thing very foolish.
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In June, Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation ordered that Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh island in the Andaman Sea shut down for four months so it could recover from the environmental damage from tourists, but on Monday, the department ordered an indefinite closure, CNN reports.
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New Dark Age is a book-length argument for the idea that vastly proliferating knowledge — from mass surveillance, social media, artificial intelligence, and other sources — is paradoxically making the world harder to comprehend, while the technology that underlies it is creating environmental damage that we're ill-equipped to understand or solve.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - BHP Billiton's president of mining in the Americas on Thursday said "complex" negotiations continue with partner Vale SA and other stakeholders to restart operations next year at Samarco, the iron ore mine in Brazil where a 2015 dam burst killed 19 people and caused massive environmental damage.
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The Washington Post reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected two permits for the PolyMet Mining Corporation issued by the state's Department of Natural Resources, finding that the state did not enter a proper review period to consider environmental damage and failed to set a fixed term on the permit.
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"He has become a poster boy for the need for a crime of ecocide," said Jojo Mehta, the co-founder of Stop Ecocide, a group that is seeking to give the International Criminal Court in The Hague the jurisdiction to prosecute leaders and businesses that knowingly cause widespread environmental damage.
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MORE STORIES FROM THE HILL: Republicans, time to prepare for a scorched-earth Clinton presidency Donald Trump wants a wall, taco vendors oblige Hillary Clinton's best — and worst — campaign jokes, ranked The environmental damage that results from population density hits semi-arid Colorado worse than other places of the country.
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In the World Economic Forum's latest Global Risks Report, for instance, its top five risks by likelihood across the next decade were listed as: extreme weather events; the failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation; major natural disasters; major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; and human-made environmental damage and disasters.
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In fact, eliminating or reducing consumption of such products "is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use," said University of Oxford's Joseph Poore, co-author of a recent study analyzing the environmental damage of farming.
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Mason, the IER study author, acknowledged to CNBC that he did not attempt to quantify the environmental costs of more drilling and mining, but he noted that he also left out a potential economic benefit: Oil, gas, and coal production inevitably leads to environmental damage, which requires the services of remediation companies.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Samarco Mineração SA could resume mining operations halted after a deadly November damburst if it signs a 20-billion -real ($4.9 billion) accord by next week to compensate those hurt by the disaster and to repair environmental damage, Brazilian Attorney General Luís Inácio Adams said on Wednesday.
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It's true that the government can take years to say yes or no to large or controversial projects, using its authority under the National Environmental Policy Act, a Nixon-era law requiring government agencies to consult with one another (and, importantly, the public) to determine how to proceed with the least environmental damage.
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Construction of the dam was suspended in 2011 after a public outcry over evictions and expected environmental damage, which included the flooding of an area the size of Singapore, but villagers have not been allowed to return home, and Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has indicated it could still move ahead.
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Environmental groups and many Democrats in Congress have argued that opening the refuge to development makes little sense in an era when the world should be reducing its use of fossil fuels to fight climate change, and that exploration and drilling would cause great environmental damage and harm wildlife in the refuge.
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According to Professor Le Viet Phu, a lecturer of Environmental Economics and Policy at the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City, while the recent fish kill may seem large, it only represents a tiny snippet of the environmental damage to food stocks and natural resources caused by reckless industrial activity.
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Similarly, there was Tomas Saraceno's "Aerocene Airport Cappadocia" (2016), a project/performance that used air-fueled balloon-like sculptures that have the ability to rise into the sky using solar energy — a direct nod to the hot-air-balloon rides the area is famous for, as well as the environmental damage they cause.
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His press release announcing the bill instead emphasizes the negative ramifications of factory farming on humans: the environmental damage it causes through toxic waste pollution (basically, animal shit spewing into the atmosphere where people can breath it), the ways it exacerbates climate change, and the harm it causes to workers and independent farm contractors.
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On the other hand, if conservatives genuinely oppose big government, Mr. Adler adds, they should start by opposing costly government programs that are a leading cause of environmental damage — including fossil fuel subsidies, ethanol subsidies, agricultural subsidies and many of the ill-conceived dam and irrigation projects of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation.
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" Penny Pepper, who has a disability writes for The Guardian: "I know the environmental damage they cause, but I don't have the luxury of a plastic-free life... I get uncomfortable and angry when I see non-disabled people behave as though they know the answer to this dilemma in exchanges that can get heated, if not abusive.
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That solution turned out to be what is known as a mitigation fund: Duke Energy agreed to place $20153 million in an account that would be controlled by the governor, with the idea being that the money would be used to offset environmental damage caused by the construction of the pipeline or its statistically inevitable leaks.
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But if the first act in the historical drama of modern Appalachia was the wholesale theft of the wealth of the mountains—by rifle, by law, and by deed—the second act, which began in the 1960s, was the story of the failure of political elites, local and national, to rectify the economic and environmental damage already wrought.
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It's both interesting and dismaying that a career regulator would hold such a view without a formal study of the evidence — which he couldn't have done because TMM has yet to file a proposal for its mine, which by law would lay out exactly what the company plans to do, including its strategy for preventing the kind of environmental damage Mr. Dombeck fears.
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People have been aware of Amazon's controversies for decades, from its monopolistic practices to tax avoidance, poor treatment of both white- and blue-collar workers, union-busting, environmental damage, and most recently, the year-long publicity stunt of HQ2, a bad-faith ploy to extract private data from US cities that ended with Amazon plopping its supposedly economy-boosting offices into the two most established markets on the East Coast.
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Not mentioned in the article are the horrors of industrial agriculture that occur when laws like North Dakota's ban on corporate farming are loosened: How in Missouri, a Chinese company came to own 42,000 acres of prime farmland, with 200,000 additional acres in their sights; how in North Carolina, the $3 billion corporate-owned pork industry disproportionately affects the poorest residents, particularly minority communities that face environmental damage and lax government oversight.
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