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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 ...
The environmental aspect of corporate social responsibility has been debated over the past few decades, as stakeholders increasingly require organizations to become more environmentally aware and socially responsible. [2] In the traditional business model, environmental protection was considered only in relation to the "public interest ...
Oil companies have known since the 1970s that burning oil and gas could cause global warming but nevertheless funded deniers for years. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Despite the support of a clear scientific consensus , as recently as 2021 one-third of Americans deny that human-caused climate change exists [ 25 ] although the majority are concerned or alarmed ...
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...
Environmental citizenship (EC) is defined as the responsible pro-environmental behavior of citizens who act and participate in society as agents of change in the private and public sphere, on a local, national and global scale, through individual and collective actions, in the direction of solving contemporary environmental problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems ...
Cargill, the megasized Minnesota-based food production giant, is laying off about 5% of its global workforce as food commodity prices drop. Cargill is America’s largest privately held company ...
American Electric Power Company v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court, in an 8–0 decision, held that corporations cannot be sued for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) under federal common law, primarily because the Clean Air Act (CAA) delegates the management of carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions to the Environmental Protection ...
Living along the North Carolina coast, we’re no stranger to environmental issues. One of those is the impact of climate change on our surroundings. It’s getting warmer. Seas are rising ...