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A #mining company has been #fined close to $221,000 for almost 30 instances of discharging waste into the #environment without authorization in southeastern #BritishColumbia.
This is not the first time the Elkview #coal mining operations have been penalized for #unauthorized waste disposals. Two years ago, Teck Coal received a penalty of close to $200,000 for several discharges in 2020.
Teck Coal has faced tens of millions of dollars in fines for #contaminating#waterways in B.C. over the years.
It is also now dealing with allegations of dumping harmful substances into waters frequented by fish in the province's southeastern region. #EnvironmentCanada laid five charges against the company in July, and they have not been tested in court.
A court hearing in that matter is scheduled for Oct. 10.
Trump reveals he made $300,000 selling Bibles and has big cryptocurrency stash
Financial disclosure shows presidential nominee owes $500m in #civil#penalties but sheds little light on #solvency
Donald Trump made hundred of thousands from his branded #Bible and millions from his #properties – but also owes millions for #defamation and #fraud cases, according to his latest financial disclosures that shed little light on the perennial question of whether the Republican presidential nominee is, in fact, solvent.
Voluminous disclosure documents to the US Office of Government Ethics to comply with election campaign laws show that, in addition to Trump’s US real estate holdings, he has global financial interests, including registered #trademarks in China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ukraine and Israel.
But the disclosures also hint at Trump’s substantial personal outgoings, including more than $500m owed to both the writer E Jean Carroll and the New York attorney general -- resulting from civil judgments involving defamation and accounting fraud.
Both judgments – $83m to Carroll and – $454m to New York state – are subject to bonds while Trump appeals the decisions, a process that could take years.
Trump’s #MarALago home and private club in Florida, which formed part of a case against the Trump Organization involving #inflated asset #valuations, produced about $57m in income from the club, down about $8m from a previous disclosure.
The disclosures are not a profit-and-loss balance sheet – they only give broad ranges of income and assets – so alone they cannot determine whether Trump is in the red or the black.
He has consistently resisted efforts to force the release of his tax returns, although two years ago a Democrat-controlled Congress released six years of Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid.
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a final rule that will ️combat #fake#reviews and testimonials️ by prohibiting their sale or purchase and allow the agency to seek #civil#penalties against knowing violators.
“Fake reviews not only waste people’s time and money, but also pollute the marketplace and divert business away from honest competitors,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan.
“By strengthening the FTC’s toolkit to fight #deceptive#advertising, the final rule will ️ protect Americans from getting cheated, put businesses that unlawfully game the system on notice, and promote markets that are fair, honest, and competitive.”
The FTC held an informal hearing on the proposed rule in February 2024.
In response to public comments, the Commission made numerous clarifications and adjustments to its previous proposal.
100 COMPANIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 71% OF GHG EMISSIONS
Which companies emit the most CO2?
According to the CDP, between 1988 and 2015, 100 companies were responsible for 71% of global GHG emissions. The Carbon Majors Database report names the following 10 companies as those which belch most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere:
100 companies are responsible for 71% of GHG emissions
China Coal 14.3 % Saudi Aramco 4.5 % Gazprom OAO 3.9 % National Iranian Oil Co 2.3 % ExxonMobil Corp 2.0 % Coal India 1.9 % Petróleos Mexicanos 1.9 % Russia Coal 1.9 % Royal Dutch Shell PLC 1.7 % China National Petroleum Corp 1.6 %
Cumulative emissions from major fossil fuel companies worldwide 1965-2020 Published by Ian Tiseo, Feb 20, 2024
The Saudi Arabian petroleum and national gas company, Saudi Aramco, emitted roughly 65 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO₂) between 1965 and 2020. The top twenty polluters were responsible for almost 520 GtCO₂ during this period, representing roughly 35 percent of global fossil fuel and cement emissions.
Check your State and National legislation for laws related to Reckless Endangerment. Usually associated with Workplace and Occupational Health & Safety.
People can indeed argue the sentences of years in jail for UK climate protests are too harsh, or can argue that the trials were improper because relevant evidence was excluded, but such discussion misses a valuable opportunity:
Another way to parse this situation and do honor to these peopie is to note that they have knowingly risked a lot and so will pay a lot for us to hear their message. Our job is to treat this expensive gift with the due honor for the price paid, not to whine that it could likely have been obtained at discount, because that cheapens the message.
Climate Change, now for lack of timely action a Climate Emergency, threatens billions every person now alive, and all our would-be progeny. Without meaning to seem callous to people making heroic efforts to wake us up, if it costs whole fractions of their lives to tell us a message so important, that cost--in societal terms--is ALREADY cheap.
By all (moral) rights, a "necessity" defense should apply here, though the paradox then becomes again that if the defense is too surely available, no risk has been taken and so the shock value of someone being willing to deliver the message this way is diminished.
I wrote more on this in my 2009 essay "Disobedience, Civil and Not-So-Civil".
highlights the larger systemic issue of #AnimalCruelty and concludes #Montana 's policies make the state vulnerable to similar tragedies.
Ewelt argues that this incident could have easily taken place in #Montana, where savage and brutal practices are allowed with minimal #penalties. Where Roberts was fined only $250 for his crime in Wyoming, the same crime committed in Montana would have resulted in an even smaller #fine.
Rebuilding Kyiv Oblast power plant possible but 'futile' without air defense -- Ukrainian army collapse cannot be ruled out US official says -- Russia sending units from Far East to replenish losses in Ukraine -- Russia's war existential threat to the people of Ukraine -- and more