To drag on: The trial of oil giant Chevron for polluting parts of the Amazon in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, for which Chevron has been ordered to pay eight billion dollars.
We assessed the spatial variation of fluoride load on the local ecosystem in the Czech part of the Ore Mountains region and its southern foothills — a heavily polluted part of Europe's "Black Triangle" region.
"It's almost like I might as well just kill myself because I will have no protection," said Cheryl Johnson, executive director People for Community Recovery, a 37-year-old nonprofit aimed at cleaning up polluted parts of Chicago's inner city.
The April 20 , 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and Macondo oil well rupture killed 11 workers and caused the largest offshore environmental disaster in U.S. history, polluting large parts of the Gulf, killing marine wildlife and harming businesses.
In fact the price was flat for most of the year, trading between €6 and €8 per tonne (see chart).Carbon beyond priceThe problem is that when the system was set up, regulators allowed companies overly generous permits to pollute, in part because of lobbying and in part because the effects of the recession were not foreseen.
As blithely as we poisoned, pillaged, and polluted every part of the planet that we could get our grubby, gluttonous little fingers on.
The lowest morbidity was found in children living in the less polluted western part of the city.
The company was accused of polluting a large part of the Amazon basin by dumping billions of litres of chemical-laden materials, which campaigners said destroyed crops, killed livestock and increased cancer rates among the local population.
The asbestos from this mine polluted other parts of northwest Montana as well, and the long-range effects of that contamination are estimated to continue through 2020.
