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Blame aside, help Ecuador’s oil damage victims – former ad man

Doing good should be good business. At least that’s how Richie Goldman, a former Men’s Wearhouse executive/ad man turned motivational book writer, believes Chevron should approach the environmental damage in Ecuador that has resulted from decades of oil extraction. Chevron is fighting a claim of up to $27 billion for rainforest pollution in a court in Ecuador, where the oil major insists the deck is stacked against [...]

From illegal landfill to natural urban oasis

The green hill in the distance looks to be natural but then you think “hang on, this is Dallas. There aren’t any hills here … ”

The hill, in fact, masks what was once an illegal landfill filled with cast off debris. The garbage now lies beneath a thick clay cap to prevent the methane, a [...]

UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health

A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday. The huge smog-like plumes, caused [...]