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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

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” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

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Luke had high moral and ethical standards and he fit right into our community,” Swan said. That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River.

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