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Key component of China’s pollution problem: Scale of nitrogen’s effect on people and ecosystems reveal
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2013
ScienceDaily: It's no secret that China is faced with some of the world's worst pollution. Until now, however, information on the magnitude, scope and impacts of a major contributor to that pollution -- human-caused nitrogen emissions -- was lacking.
A new study co-authored by Stanford Woods Institute biologist Peter Vitousek reveals that amounts of nitrogen (from industry, cars and fertilizer) deposited on land and water in China by way of rain, dust and other carriers increased by 60 percent annually from...
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Court throws out much of $1.6 billion leak case versus Exxon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2013
Reuters: Exxon Mobil Corp has won the reversal by Maryland's highest court of a $1 billion punitive damages award stemming from an underground leak at a gas station, and also won the reversal of portions of nearly $650 million of compensatory damages awards.
The Maryland Court of Appeals said in a ruling on Tuesday Exxon's "shortcomings" in remediation efforts did not rise to the level of fraud, removing the basis for the punitive damages award.
Some compensatory damages were reversed because the plaintiffs...