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These firms have done the most amount of damage to the environment. Most of these companies are oil companies from the Middle East (such as Saudi Aramco). The reason why oil companies are one the biggest contributors to environmental damage is because the combustion of fossil fuels can cause climate change. Also, energy companies are big contributors to climate change since most of them are not yet on the path to providing greener/cleaner energy.

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Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch with some of the garbage being waste created by companies such as any plastics that are no longer needed etc.

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Accidents involving tankers, barges, pipelines, refineries, drilling rigs, and storage facilities, could cause oil spills. As seen in the article, it could affect fish quality and humans eating the fish could get sick. This will also affect the fishing industry because people will not trust the fish quality due to incidences.

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Heathrow airport has is considering to upscale their airport by building more sections, the noise pollution being created by the airplanes is already massive, it bothers people who live near the airport as airplanes are very noisy and can disrupt sleep and other activities. The construction of new sections will further increase noise pollution as construction sites are very rowdy.

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Heathrow's plans for expansion at the airport with a third runway to the north-west of the existing two are currently supported by Government policy through the Airports National Policy Statement. Expansion at the airport would create tens of thousands of jobs and billions in economic benefits to the UK.

Demand for aviation will recover from COVID-19, and the additional capacity at an expanded Heathrow - the UK's only hub airport - would allow Britain as a sovereign nation to compete more effectively for trade.

As passenger numbers recover, our immediate focus will be to continue to ensure the safe operation of the airport and to maintain our service levels while we consult with investors, government, airline customers and regulators on our next steps.

The pages on this site area replace those previously found on heathrowexpansion.com. The privacy statements linked to those pages can be found here.

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Heathrow's plans for expansion at the airport with a third runway to the north-west of the existing two are currently supported by Government policy through the Airports National Policy Statement. Expansion at the airport would create tens of thousands of jobs and billions in economic benefits to the UK.

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Rana Plaza was a collapsed factory used to produce textile garments for Fast Fashion. This factory had poor working conditions and an unstable structure, which caused it to collapse under lots of workers. The day before the collapse, the workers were told to evacuate after finding a crack. However, they later told all the workers that they fixed the problem and told all workers to resume their work. However, the generators they added prior to this were too heavy, and many workers were crushed. This has a pretty significant impact on the fashion business as it lowers the reputation of the fashion business for not caring about working conditions, and also lowers the output of the business.

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Turkey, the ‘dumping ground’ for Europe’s plastic and waste

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A Greenpeace Turkey report revelas that for the fifth consecutive year, the country is confirmed as the main destination for waste: 456,507 tonnes from the EU and the UK alone in 2023, equivalen

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Company Fined for Illegal Waste Dumping in Ajman

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Company Fined for Illegal Waste Dumping in Ajman

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A firm was penalized for dumping waste and construction debris in non-authorized zones in Ajman.

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Exxon Bayton must pay $14.2M fine over air pollution at its Baytown. Exports revealed they together add up to the considerable sum of 1.5 million pounds of illegal pollutants

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(Reuters) - ExxonMobil Corp must pay a $14.25 million fine over air pollution at its Baytown, Texas crude oil refinery, a federal appeals court affirmed Tuesday. It is the largest penalty ever assessed in a citizen enforcement suit over air pollution, say the plaintiffs' lawyers.

In a split decision, a three-judge panel backed a lower court's finding that the company can be held responsible for the pollution that occurred over an eight-year period at its "massive" Baytown complex, which includes a chemical plant and refinery.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, weighing in on the overall dispute for the third time, said the district court had reasonably considered the violations in the aggregate instead of individually, as Exxon had argued was correct.

The court said the repeated Clean Air Act violations warrant the penalty Exxon faces. While each violation may pose little threat individually, they together add up to the considerable sum of 1.5 million pounds of illegal pollutants, the opinion said.

"Exxon does not offer any alternative definitions of 'seriousness' that the district court could have applied instead," wrote Judge Gregg Costa for the majority, in one of his last opinions for the court. (Costa, an Obama appointee, retires Wednesday.)

Dissenting, Judge Andrew Oldham, a Trump appointee, called the case a "jurisdictional mess," saying plaintiffs Sierra Club and Environment Texas Citizen Lobby had not adequately shown the harms claimed - including respiratory problems and other health issues - were traceable to Exxon.

Josh Kratka, an attorney with the National Environmental Law Center who represented the appellees, says it's an important precedent. "For a wealthy company that fought tooth and nail to get this penalty, it sends a message," Kratka said.

ExxonMobil spokesperson Julie King said the company respects the court's opinion but disagrees with the outcome. "We acted responsibly and in accordance with regulatory compliance," King said in an email.

In March 2021, U.S. District Judge David Hittner, on remand from the 5th Circuit, knocked about $6 million off an original penalty of nearly $20 million.

The case is Environment Texas Citizen Lobby v. ExxonMobil Corp, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, No. 17-20545.

For the environmental groups: Philip Hilder of Hilder & Associates; and Charles Caldart and Joshua Kratka of the National Environmental Law Center

For ExxonMobil: Russell Post and Fields Alexander of Beck Redden; Keith Courtney of McGinnis Lochridge; Eric Nichols of Butler Snow; and Bryon Rice of Hicks Davis Wynn

Read more: U.S. judge knocks nearly $6 million off fine for Exxon Baytown, Texas, pollution

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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$14 million air pollution fine for Exxon's Baytown refinery stands

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ExxonMobil Corp must pay a $14.25 million fine over air pollution at its Baytown, Texas crude oil refinery, a federal appeals court affirmed Tuesday. It is the largest penalty ever assessed in a citizen enforcement suit over air pollution, say the plaintiffs' lawyers.

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The construction industry accounts for 23% of air pollution, 40% of drinking water contamination, and 50% of landfill waste in the environment. Their activities resulted in habitat loss, ecosystem disruption, air and noise pollution, water pollution, and waste generation.

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Pesticides are commonly used in farming companies, usually as the image shows, using large sprinklers that cover a large area. This, however, creates the risk of these pesticides flowing to nearby local water sources such as rivers and lakes, basically poisoning them and causing environmental harm

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Greenpeace activists today laid fifteen metal drums featuring a radioactive symbol in front of the headquarters of Orano, a French nuclear fuel company, in protest against the dumping of French nuclear waste at an unsafe site in Seversk, Siberia. The protest comes as a new investigation by Greenpeace France has revealed that exports of nuclear waste to Russia have restarted after an eleven-year break!!

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Oil rigs are mass polluters as they emit green house gases Methane and volatile organic compounds, due to incomplete combustion. Oil and gas facilities in the United States emitted 316 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in 2022, an increase of 1.2 percent from the previous year. Increases such as these will have irreversable damage to our planet if this continues to happen. Oil rigs are one of the mass pollutants of the planet.

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Greenpeace visits places textile waste disposals. Used and new clothes are sent to Kenya from Europe and China to be sold as so called “Mitumba” but often they end up as landfill and waste disposal due to the huge amount.

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Fashion waste from fast fashion brands has triggered a pollution crisis in numerous African countries. This is mainly because of the unsustainable ways in which these clothes are handled and disposed of. Most disposal landfills consist of waste that is mainly made up of unused clothing shipped from all across the globe.

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In 2023, Tesla was responsible for more than 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions

“Tesla has exposed residents and workers in the area surrounding the Fremont Factory to excess amounts of air pollution, including nitrogen oxides, arsenic, cadmium, and other harmful chemicals,” the nonprofit's suit alleged. “These exposures are extensive and ongoing.”

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At endemic population levels, herbivorous arthropods defoliate approximately 5–15% of the canopy in temperate forests (Cebrian, 1999; Cyr and Pace, 1993). Damage increases considerably during outbreak years and nearly all of the foliage in an area can be removed by herbivores, shifting forests from acting as carbon sinks to carbon sources. Canopy damage is a combination of herbivore population size, community composition, and individual consumption rates, all of which have been shown to respond to atmospheric change.

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