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Climate Protection Not A Crime: Greta Thunberg After Detention In Germany
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg swiftly resumed campaigning on Wednesday after she was briefly detained in Germany during a protest against a coal mine expansion, tweeting that protecting the climate was not a crime.
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Couple In Brazil Slammed For Turning A Waterfall Blue For Gender-Reveal Party
Many social media users are calling for the couple to be charged with environmental crime.
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Overturned New York Headstones Not Vandalism: Police
Tombstones overturned in a Jewish cemetery in New York were the result of environmental damage and not vandalism, police said Sunday, amid a rising number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States.
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Thousands Arrested Suspected of Environmental Crimes, Says China
Chinese police arrested thousands of people suspected of environmental crimes last year, a minister told parliament today, as the world's most populous country vows to get serious on protecting the environment.
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CBI Registers Case Against Former Bureaucrat for Allegedly Taking $1 Million Bribe
After a year-long investigation, the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against JS Maini, a former secretary of chemicals and fertilizer ministry, for allegedly accepting a bribe of $1 million.
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Interpol Announces Special Team to Combat Illegal Ivory Trafficking
International police organisation Interpol announced on Tuesday it would establish a team to target ivory trafficking and more generally, environmental crime, in Africa.
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Walmart agrees to pay over $110 million for environmental crimes
The US Justice Department said Walmart Stores has pleaded guilty in cases filed by the federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous materials at its retail stores across the country.
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Wal-Mart to pay more than Rs 610 crore for mishandling of hazardous wastes
US retail giant Wal-Mart has pleaded guilty to charges of environmental crimes, including mishandling of hazardous waste and pesticides, and agreed to pay a total of 110 million dollars (around Rs 617 crore) to settle the cases.
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Chinese police bust million-dollar rat-meat ring
Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures.
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Climate Protection Not A Crime: Greta Thunberg After Detention In Germany
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg swiftly resumed campaigning on Wednesday after she was briefly detained in Germany during a protest against a coal mine expansion, tweeting that protecting the climate was not a crime.
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Couple In Brazil Slammed For Turning A Waterfall Blue For Gender-Reveal Party
Many social media users are calling for the couple to be charged with environmental crime.
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Overturned New York Headstones Not Vandalism: Police
Tombstones overturned in a Jewish cemetery in New York were the result of environmental damage and not vandalism, police said Sunday, amid a rising number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States.
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Thousands Arrested Suspected of Environmental Crimes, Says China
Chinese police arrested thousands of people suspected of environmental crimes last year, a minister told parliament today, as the world's most populous country vows to get serious on protecting the environment.
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CBI Registers Case Against Former Bureaucrat for Allegedly Taking $1 Million Bribe
After a year-long investigation, the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against JS Maini, a former secretary of chemicals and fertilizer ministry, for allegedly accepting a bribe of $1 million.
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Interpol Announces Special Team to Combat Illegal Ivory Trafficking
International police organisation Interpol announced on Tuesday it would establish a team to target ivory trafficking and more generally, environmental crime, in Africa.
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Walmart agrees to pay over $110 million for environmental crimes
The US Justice Department said Walmart Stores has pleaded guilty in cases filed by the federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous materials at its retail stores across the country.
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Wal-Mart to pay more than Rs 610 crore for mishandling of hazardous wastes
US retail giant Wal-Mart has pleaded guilty to charges of environmental crimes, including mishandling of hazardous waste and pesticides, and agreed to pay a total of 110 million dollars (around Rs 617 crore) to settle the cases.
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Chinese police bust million-dollar rat-meat ring
Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures.
