If plaintiffs start winning cases against individual polluters, Eskom and Sasol could be sued in South Africa
Production is soaring in Alberta’s bitumen belt, but the environment is suffering, writes John Vidal.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a punitive damages order against oil giant Exxon for one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.
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/ 19 October 2007
The responsibility of addressing South Africa’s apartheid past lies within the country itself and not the United States courts, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla said on Friday. In a statement issued by her office, she reiterated the government’s stance against the case brought by a group of apartheid victims in US courts.