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...poor and rural peasants alike seem to realize that they pay the biggest price for pollution and deforestation. There is cause for hope as well in the growing recognition among businesspeople that it is not in their long-term interest to fight environmental reforms. John Browne, CEO of British Petroleum, boldly asserted in a major speech in May that the threat of climate change could no longer be ignored...
According to Maskin, the course might study topics such as the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
Texaco transferred control of the pipeline to the Ecuador state petroleum company, Petroecuador, in 1989. In 1993, a lawsuit was filed against Texaco on behalf of 30,000 inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Amazon, seeking damages of over $1 billion for the degradation of the local environment. Elias Piyaguaje, leader of the Secoya people, described the extent of the damage: "Our rivers have been poisoned. We cannot drink. We cannot bathe. We cannot believe in the future of our existence." The lawsuit is still pending...
Indeed, Harvard's highest governing board, the Corporation, recently sent letters of concern to the parent company of Shell, the Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading Company, according to Simons...
...looked unpalatable when Republican Senator Alfonse d'Amato proposed it last year. The bill languished until the bomb attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and the suspicious explosion of TWA Flight 800 last month. After that a version affecting only new investment of more than $40 million in petroleum development sailed through Congress unopposed. Senator Orrin Hatch reflects the mood of many Republicans when he says, "I don't find it acceptable that our key allies don't agree with us about dealing with terrorism. As long as our allies invest in terrorist states, that...