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Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2025

Kuwait ponders a future after fossil fuels

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Kuwait City skyline Kuwait is an oil country, and Kuwait City glows with prosperity. Kuwaitis know, though, that they can't ride the oil...
Monday, September 23, 2024

IP, business stories of Tupperware bankruptcy minimize female marketing pioneer, dangers of plastics

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Brownie Wise on Business Week in 1954 via America Comes Alive ; © fair use The Tupperware bankruptcy has been much in the news , though the ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Town asserting 'full-on assault of stink' wins latest round in nuisance feud with hot-mix asphalt maker

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Quarry and asphalt manufacturing facility in England. Richard Law via Wikimedia Commons GNU 1.2 An asphalt plant that residential neighbors...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken holds her own

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U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Today, March 10, is the International Day of Women Judges , and I want to ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Big Ag plays Goliath in film about GMO-seed litigation

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A worthwhile movie you might have missed during the pandemic is Percy vs. Goliath (2020), starring Christopher Walken and Zach Braff, invol...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Court rejects 'super tort' theory in suit alleging animal cruelty, though concurrence mentions rights of nature

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Kodiak bear at Olympic Game Farm, a private zoo in Washington. Analise Zocher via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Animal Legal Defense Fund tried but ...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

EPA floats PFAS limits for drinking water

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Rawpixel CC0 1.0 PFAS has been much on the lips of regulators, lately and at last.  As I wrote in 2021 , the movie Dark Waters (2019), bas...
Friday, April 14, 2023

South African court upholds common law abuse of process as defense in prototypical anti-enviro SLAPP

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Petitioners demand EU anti-SLAPP legislation in 2022. Ekō via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Constitutional Court of South Africa upheld the use of...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Indigenous people battle extractive industries, government in Constitutional Court of Ecuador

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Kichwa representatives appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in 2015. ( CIDH photo CC BY 2.0 .) A case inchin...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Unregulated, 'Dark Waters' chemicals persist in cookware, clothing, sickening people, environment

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Comedian and social critic John Oliver's latest top story on HBO's Last Night concerned PFAS, the artificial chemical substances b...