Sentences with phrase «out of claimed environmental»

Defense of a putative class action against a leading coatings manufacturer arising out of claimed environmental contamination involving solvent contaminants in Louisville, Kentucky.

Represented a leading coatings manufacturer against a putative class action arising out of claimed environmental contamination in Jersey City, New Jersey

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In addition, according to the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, after the environmental clean - up costs and the repayment of loans taken out by Minvest from Gabriel Resources, the project would generate nowhere near the $ 4 billion claimed by RMGC, but instead bring «nothing to the region but a long term sentence to poverty.»

Although we noted that the ad included information setting out the environmental benefits of wearing fur, which were intended to form the basis for the headline claim «it's eco-friendly to wear fur», because we considered that that headline claim would be understood as an absolute environmental claim, and because we did not consider that we had seen sufficient evidence that the product would cause no environmental damage, taking account of the full life cycle of the product from manufacture to disposal, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead.

I readily confess a lingering frustration: uncertainties so infuse the issue of climate change that it is still impossible to rule out either mild or catastrophic outcomes, let alone provide confident probabilities for all the claims and counterclaims made about environmental problems.

They claim that environmental groups are politically adrift and dreadfully out of touch.

In a blog response, the National Resources Defense Council notes that the industry's typical «economic disaster» prophesy is likely blown out of proportion, as such economic scare - claims [pdf] over environmental regulation have historically been.

Pro-government extremist Nicholas Kristof, a writer for the New York Times, recently repeated claims that the great sculptors of Easter Island were wiped out due to manmade environmental destruction.

Between 2007 and 2014, Civitas points out, TEF also gave $ 4,476,000 to the Southern Environmental Law Center, a litigation factory that uses questionable climate and ecological claims to drive lawsuits against energy and other development projects, raising energy costs, killing jobs, and hammering the budgets, health and well - being of poor, minority, and working class families.

Monbiot replies that the movement was unsuccessful, not because it failed to capture the minds of the public, but because «we are massively out - spent by corporate - funded movements which have had hundreds of millions poured into them telling government and the media there isn't a problem», a claim which surely ignores the UK and EU governments» environmental policies.

He's already persuaded his fellow Suruí to forego income from logging and hold out for carbon money, and earlier he worked with environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) Forest Trends (publisher of Ecosystem Marketplace) and the Baker & MacKenzie law firm to clarify his tribe's legal claim to the land.

The Environmental Working Group's report, «Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanoEnvironmental Working Group's report, «Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanoenvironmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol production:

The Ministry of Energy and Mines claims that reducing the environmental requirements — weakening the country's environmental framework - will promote investment in the country, but environmental campaigners point out that key stakeholders such as civil society, indigenous peoples, and academics should be consulted about changes in laws that would affect forests and community lands - such as the proposed elimination of environmental impact assessments.

But several proposed new coal plants have met with opposition from environmental groups, who claim they have successfully stopped the construction of eight out of eleven proposed plants.

George Monbiot, the Guardian's straight - shooting environmental columnist, today unveiled the winner of the second annual (and final, if Monbiot can resist the urge to dole it out next year) Christopher Booker prize, given to the «journalist» who most flagrantly ignores facts in favor of cramming the greatest number of thoroughly debunked climate denier claims into a single entry.

The full version of Jacobson's research will be published in the next issue of Energy and Environmental Science, but check out the Science Codex version for more on Jacobson's views on our best renewable energy choices, and why nuclear and clean coal aren't nearly so environmentally friendly as their supporters claim.

The team represented airline clients in all facets of complex civil litigation arising out of the crash of a commercial flight including wrongful death and personal injury claims, property damage claims, CERCLA and other environmental claims, and insurance coverage disputes.

Costa Rica v. Nicaragua (Certain Activities Carried Out By Nicaragua in the Border Area)(Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by Nicaragua.

Acted for a number of former directors and officers in connection with environmental liability claims made against them arising out of the liquidation of Northstar Aerospace

BAT Industries v Sequana Acting for BAT Industries in a multi-party, multi-jurisdictional commercial dispute concerning liability for environmental pollution of rivers in the United States, and a claim in Chancery Division for over US$ 800 million in respect of dividends paid out by a company in the face of a contingent indemnity liability in respect of such pollution, allegedly unlawfully, in breach of fiduciary duty and as a transaction defrauding creditors under s423 Insolvency Act 1986.

Defense of a manufacturer in medical monitoring and property damage claims arising out of alleged environmental solvent contamination in groundwater in Pennsylvania.

Mediated coverage claims arising out of a major environmental contamination in Southern California

Defense of a chemical manufacturer in mass action claims for medical monitoring, property damage and personal injury arising out of alleged environmental contamination in West Virginia.

In the context of environmental assessment, for example, this may mean assessments carried out by collaboratively managed institutions such as the plethora of co-management boards enabled by northern land claims agreements (see for example those established under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act), or it may mean enabling parallel assessments by Indigenous nations and the Crown (for an example see this independent assessment by the Tsleil Waututh Nation of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tankers and pipelines project), followed by reconciliation negotiations to reach agreement on outcomes.