Beijing, China (CNN) -- Apple has defended itself against allegations its suppliers in China committed environmental violations.
Horse slaughter plans cause nuisance odors and chronic sewer and environmental violations.
The Koch Petroleum Group eventually pleaded guilty to one criminal charge of covering up environmental violations, including the falsification of documents, and paid a twenty-million-dollar fine.
Finally, the Ohio Department of Agriculture moved to revoke the company's operating permits--not for environmental violations but on the grounds that DeCoster controlled or had the right to control the new company, and should have, but didn't, disclose that fact.
Its accusation has echoes of Sakhalin-2, the massive oil and gas project that the Russian government wrested control of from Shell late last year. (See: "Russia Shows Sakhalin Partners Who The Boss Is") Though this time there may well have been some environmental violations by the project members, Kazakhstan's real gripe with Eni has been the project's string of delays.
Its accusation has echoes of Sakhalin-2, the massive oil and gas project that the Russian government wrested control of from Shell late last year. (See: "Russia Shows Sakhalin Partners Who The Boss Is") Though this time there may well have been some environmental violations by the project members, Kazakhstan's real gripe with Eni (nyse: E - news - people ) has been the project's string of delays.
America imprisons people for technical violations of immigration laws, environmental standards and arcane business rules.
Since 1999 the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has charged the company with a number of violations, including releasing too much ammonia from its processing plant into a Chesapeake Bay tributary.
Montana's Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are in negotiations with Blixseth over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, including the discharge of waste without a permit and the deposit of fill material in wetlands.
And investigations by the Bush administration's Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency found no criminal conduct by Marine Corps officials and no violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Instead, how about we make trade and environmental reform align with one another: sign a deal, then treat violations of the deal as equivalent to tariffs, incurring disciplinary action from the WTO.
In 2000 Iowa's Department of Natural Resources labeled DeCoster a "habitual violator" of environmental laws and banned him from expanding operations in the state for four years because of violations at hog farms he owned.
Empowered with new rights, some group of BP shareholders would likely have asked if directors and officers considered the environmental impact of hundreds of decisions during the last decade when BP racked up more than 750 safety violations ( 97% of all violations cited during that time by regulators).
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