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A Delta Air Lines plane takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Nov. 22, 2022. A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday, May 30, 2023, claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world's “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages. The complaint in California federal court alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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Delta Air Lines hit with lawsuit over claims of carbon neutrality
By ED DAVEY
Tue,05/30/23-1:57PM , 180 Reads
A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world's “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages. The complaint in federal court in California alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus.
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Liberia may have 'parallel system' for illegal log exports
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Mon,02/20/23-10:34PM , 849 Reads
The lush West African rainforests of Liberia are being cut down and illegally exported with the likely collusion of powerful government officials, according to a diplomatic document obtained by The Associated Press that described an apparent “parallel system” for trade in timber.
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Investigation faults Liberian agency protecting rainforest
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Tue,01/24/23-10:06PM , 189 Reads
An independent investigation into logging in the Liberian rainforest found illegal operations “on a significant scale," with multiple missteps or breaches of law by the government agency charged with protecting those forests, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press.
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Residents of the Puerto Franco community walk near the limit of Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru's Amazon, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, restricted hunting and sold forest carbon credits to oil companies. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits
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Thu,12/22/22-8:57AM , 628 Reads
SAN MARTIN, Peru (AP) — Rolando Zumba, a gentle 59-year-old, wept, though the moment he described took place many years ago. Nothing has been the same since that day, when a park ranger took away his hunting rifles. Now where there was once self-sufficiency, hunger has stalked his village.
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