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On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...
Environmental harmful product dumping (“environmental dumping”) is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste (household waste, industrial/nuclear waste, etc.) from one country to another. The goal is to take the waste to a country that has less strict environmental laws , or environmental laws that are not strictly enforced.
The Canada–Philippines waste dispute was an international row over mislabeled Canadian garbage shipped to Manila by a recycling company. The 103 shipping containers that left from Vancouver in 2013–14 were labeled as recyclable plastics ; they instead contained household waste.
A section of the committee’s report titled “prevent fraud, waste and abuse” includes four steps —”Approvals, Training, curriculum development and discipline” — criminal judges can ...
An example of a case of environmental racism is a small mainly African American (90%) town called Uniontown, Alabama where a toxic landfill is believed to have caused serious health issues. [38] In 2010, the Tennessee Valley Authority moved four million cubic yards of coal ash to a landfill in Uniontown without providing citizens any protection ...
The Warren County protest led the commission of racial justice to produce "Toxic Waste and Race", the first national study to correlate waste facilities sites and demographic characteristics. Race was found to be the most potent variable in predicting where these facilities were located; more powerful than poverty, land values, and home ownership.
Corby toxic waste case: United Kingdom 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump: 2006 Côte d'Ivoire Cuyahoga River: United States Friendly Floatees: flotsam 1992 Ocean Goiânia accident: radioactive contamination 1987 Brazil Hansa Carrier: flotsam 1990 Ocean Khian Sea waste disposal incident: 1986 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
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