Some Shell pipelines that crisscross the delta are decades old and can fail, causing massive pollution.

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C. has tossed a lawsuit by the prominent law firm Patton Boggs that accuses lawyers for Chevron of somehow conspiring to keep plaintiffs in a massive pollution case from paying their bills.

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Assaulted by climate change, massive air pollution, and biologically dead rivers, the cities of the South are becoming environmental disaster areas.

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At some point people will take notice of the massive amounts of pollution and waste that is created from these sports leagues and demand that something is done, but why not do it because it is the right thing to do socially as well as economically?

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Indoor air pollution (IAP) is an excellent example: A massive global problem and the second-largest driver of global warming, IAP causes over 3.5 million needless deaths each year, mainly in the developing world, and has a disproportionate impact on women and children.

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Such a change in temperature -- which many scientists believe is being caused by pollution trapping heat in the atmosphere -- would mean widespread droughts and floods and massive economic and natural damage, experts say.

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