Supreme Court’s Shell Game: How Big Corporations Dodge Accountability for Human Rights Abuses
Updated: 2024-03-31 00:34:52
: Royal Dutch Shell Plc com News and information on Shell Plc Skip to Content Privacy Disclaimer Shell Online Library Search : for Search Button Supreme Court’s Shell Game : How Big Corporations Dodge Accountability for Human Rights Abuses Mar 31st , 2024 by John Donovan Esther Kiobel and her legal team took on the big bad wolf known as Shell , accusing them of all sorts of nasty stuff like torture , killings , and basically being the baddies in . Nigeria Posted by John Donovan 31 March 2024 A rewrite in layman’s terms of the Kiobel vs Shell case as described in this Oyez legal article accessed on 31 March 2024 Alright folks , let’s break this down in plain English because , let’s face it , the legal mumbo jumbo can make your head spin faster than a politician dodging . questions So ,
Royal Dutch Shell Plc com News and information on Shell Plc Skip to Content Privacy Disclaimer Shell Online Library Search : for Search Button Oil Giants’ Climate Targets Go Up in Smoke Mar 30th , 2024 by John Donovan Another day , another dose of corporate greed and environmental destruction . Will these oil giants ever learn Or will they continue to put profits over the planet Posted by John Donovan 30 March 2024 Brace yourselves for another round of corporate shenanigans , this time starring none other than Shell , the world’s second-largest oil and gas company . In a move that surprises absolutely no one except maybe the most optimistic tree-hugger , Shell has decided to scale back its climate pledges . Saving the planet is just too darn risky for these fossil fuel . titans Shell’s
: Royal Dutch Shell Plc com News and information on Shell Plc Skip to Content Privacy Disclaimer Shell Online Library Search : for Search Button Shell Faces Hague Climate Case : Another Masterclass in Hypocrisy and Legal Gymnastics Mar 30th , 2024 by John Donovan grab your popcorn and get ready to witness Shell and six environmental and social organizations duke it out in court , led by none other than Milieudefensie aka Friends of the Earth Netherlands and Greenpeace Netherlands . Posted by John Donovan 30 March 2024 Look who’s back in court again . That’s right , folks , it’s none other than Shell PLC , the poster child for environmental destruction and corporate greed . Next Tuesday , Shell’s appeal over its laughable attempt to shirk responsibility for reducing CO2 emissions comes to
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, , , Skip to content Menu My journey as writer Contact About Air Quality Matters Discourse for all interested in all things air-quality related Menu My journey as writer Contact About New automobile standards to make for cleaner car travel , improve air quality , protect public health , fight climate change March 28, 2024 WASHINGTON â Today , March 20, 2024 the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency announced final national pollution standards for passenger cars , light-duty trucks , and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 through 2032 and beyond . These standards will avoid more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions and provide nearly 100 billion of annual net benefits to society , including 13 billion of annual public health benefits due to improved air quality , and 62 billion
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Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Older brain cells linger unexpectedly before their death March 28, 2024 Dartmouth College A living-tissue model developed by Dartmouth researchers showed that a fatal trauma killed younger oligodendrocytes blue within 24 hours , while mature cells yellow took 45 days to die . For oligodendrocytesâthe central nervous system cells critical for brain functionâage may not bring wisdom , but it does come with the power to cling to life for much , much longer than scientists knew . That’s according to a new study  featured on the March 27 cover of the Journal of Neuroscience Mature oligodendrocytes took a shocking 45 days to die following a fatal trauma that killed younger cells within
: Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search From Earth to Mars : Transporting spin information at the speed of light March 28, 2024 University at Buffalo Scientists have used electrical pulses to manipulate magnetic information into a polarized light signal , a discovery that could revolutionize long-distance optical telecommunications , including between Earth and . Mars The breakthrough , described in a study  published March 27 in Nature involves the field of spintronics , which aims to manipulate the spin of electrons in order to store and process . information The researchers applied an electrical pulse to transfer this spin information from electrons to photons , the particles that make up light , allowing the
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Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Killing cancer by making it overheat March 27, 2024 Netherlands Cancer Institute In the fight against cancer , the prevailing approach has been to inhibit the processes that allow cancer cells to divide rapidly . However , this strategy often leads to cancer cells developing workarounds , rendering the tumor unresponsive to . treatment Matheus dos Santos Dias , a researcher , is taking a completely different approach â one that might seem counterintuitive at first . We’re going against the prevailing view that you can only fight cancer cells by inhibiting them , 8221 he explains . But we had strong evidence that it also works if you overstimulate and exhaust them . 8221 The idea behind
Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Unlocking the Role of Human Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease March 27, 2024 Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie Microglia , the specialized immune cells in the brain , play a crucial role in Alzheimer’s disease AD but the exact mechanisms behind their contribution have been elusive due to the complexities involved in studying them in human brain . samples Now , a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough xenotransplantation model that is providing new insights into how human microglia respond to the disease . environment The study , led by Prof . Bart De Strooper UK-DRI UCL and VIB-KU Leuven and Prof . Renzo Mancuso VIB-UAntwerp was published in Nature Neuroscience . The
This briefing assesses Shell’s fossil fuel extraction plans in light of Shell's appeal of a Dutch court verdict requiring the company to take responsibility for its climate pollution. Our analysis shows that Shell continues to plan for levels of oil and gas production and investment that undermine the world’s chances of curtailing climate disaster.
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Today the board of the US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) approved $500 million to expand oil and gas production in Bahrain, despite Biden’s commitment to end international public finance for fossil fuels made in 2021.
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Oil Change International commissioned Data Desk to provide an overview of the supply chains that are currently bringing crude oil and refined products to Israel, focusing on fuel supplies to the country's armed forces.
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Oil Change International Home About Values Jobs Blog Program Areas Global Policy Public Finance Global Industry Africa Asia United States Research Press Donate Home About Values Jobs Blog Program Areas Global Policy Public Finance Global Industry Africa Asia United States Research Press Donate Facebook Twitter New Research Exposes Countries and Companies Supplying the Oil Fueling Palestinian Genocide March 14, 2024 By Oil Change International Press Releases : Contact fuel-research priceofoil.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington , DC New data compiled by DataDesk , commissioned by Oil Change International sheds light on the devastating role of oil fueling the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people . By tracing the supply chains of crude oil and refined products to Israel , the
The countries that produce oil and gas from the North Sea (Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark) rank among the countries with the greatest economic capacity and responsibility to rapidly phase out extraction, and to finance just transitions to renewable energy solutions domestically and abroad.
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A comprehensive report released today by Oil Change International exposes the failure of the five major North Sea oil and gas producing countries – Norway, UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany – in terms of aligning its oil and gas policies with the Paris Agreement, posing a grave threat to global efforts to combat the climate crisis.
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While fires rage in Texas and we prepare for yet another hottest year on record, Biden's mention of the climate crisis in the State of the Union could have been missed in a blink.
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