Stories: Pollution
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Long Wait for Justice in Amazon Pollution Case
It is exactly 22 years since the first class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the residents of the Ecuadorian Amazon region, known as the 'Oriente,' against Texaco in New York for allegedly causing environmental damage and increasing the risk of exposure to diseases like cancer among others. The US company is accused of dumping toxic waste water carrying hazardous hydrocarbons...
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The Site of Several 2016 Olympic Aquatic Events Has 195 Times the Safe Amount of Sewage in the Water
Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes … “Ew, what’s that smell?” At Ipanema beach in January, the organization Meu Rio staged a protest in an attempt to make it known that thousands of gallons of raw sewage are dumped into the ocean off Rio’s coast...