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Weitz & Luxenberg secures US$423m groundwater contamination settlement
Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. has secured a landmark settlement against some of the country’s biggest oil companies, which have agreed to pay US$423 million in a suit involving the contamination of 153 public water systems nationally. Of the settlement, Robert Gordon of Weitz & Luxenberg said, “This is an excellent settlement on behalf of our clients. The oil companies knew that MTBE would contaminate drinking water when they used it. The defendants who have settled have lived up to their responsibility by not only paying cash but by offering treatment of future contaminated wells for the ... |
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New EU report will call for 90% capture of CO2 emissions by 2015
You may have heard about `Carbon Capture and Storage` - it`s a way of keeping CO2 from entering the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. Last year a proposed Europe-wide directive was proposed, which would regulate the emerging practice. British Liberal Chris Davies is preparing a report calling for it to be mandatory. He wants all new coal burning power stations to be required to capture 90% of their CO2 by 2015 and all stations to be fitted out within a decade of that target.
At present 24% of the world`s CO2 emissions come from the burning of coal. This is why Chris Davies ... |
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- Arcadis awarded US$10m site remediation contract for US Army
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