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Energy companies pledge to measure impacts of large dam projects
Critics say new scorecard to evaluate social and environmental impacts of hydropower projects serves dam builders not local communities. Two of the world’s largest energy companies committed last week to assess the impacts of their hydropower projects using new voluntary guidelines to evaluate the economic, social, and environmental consequences of…
American democracy activists to go on trial in Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) – Dozens of democracy activists including 16 Americans go on trial in Egypt Sunday in a politically charged case which has set off a crisis in relations between Cairo and Washington and threatened $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid. Forty-three foreign and Egyptian non-profit workers – including…
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