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Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto

January 22, 2014

The reason why I'm here today, in part, is because of a dog: an abandoned puppy I found back in the rain, back in 1998. She turned out to be a much bigger dog than I'd anticipated. When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront, despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste: a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week. The area also has one of the lowest ratios of parks to people in the city.

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Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto

January 22, 2014

The reason why I'm here today, in part, is because of a dog: an abandoned puppy I found back in the rain, back in 1998. She turned out to be a much bigger dog than I'd anticipated. When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront, despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste: a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week. The area also has one of the lowest ratios of parks to people in the city.

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Patricia Lorenzo Vice President at Compass Lexicon joins as exclusive Economic Consultant in Competition Policy and Intellectual Property

January 21, 2014

Patricia Lorenzo is a Vice President in Compass Lexecon’s European competition policy practice. Prior to this, she worked in the competition policy group at LECG and NERA.


Patricia’s work focuses on the application economic analysis and econometric techniques to competition policy issues before the European Commission and National Antitrust Authorities and to valuation damages cases.

Her work has included the application of empirical models to evaluate the competitive impact of mergers and to estimate damages derived from antitrust infringements and from commercial business practices. She has also provided advice and prepared expert reports in the context of merger control and Article 102 proceedings.

 

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Patricia Lorenzo Vice President at Compass Lexicon joins as exclusive Economic Consultant in Competition Policy and Intellectual Property

January 21, 2014

Patricia Lorenzo is a Vice President in Compass Lexecon’s European competition policy practice. Prior to this, she worked in the competition policy group at LECG and NERA.


Patricia’s work focuses on the application economic analysis and econometric techniques to competition policy issues before the European Commission and National Antitrust Authorities and to valuation damages cases.

Her work has included the application of empirical models to evaluate the competitive impact of mergers and to estimate damages derived from antitrust infringements and from commercial business practices. She has also provided advice and prepared expert reports in the context of merger control and Article 102 proceedings.

 

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Dorothy Udeme at Nigerian firm Dorothy Ufot & Co joins as International Arbitration and Dispute law member

January 21, 2014

Dorothy has consistently been ranked by the International Who’s Who of commercial arbitration since 2009 as one of the world’s leading experts in international commercial arbitration. She is the author of the GAR’s International Arbitration Know-How Nigeria Chapter which can be viewed at GAR’s website at:
http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/knowhow/topics/61jurisdiction/18/nigeria

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Dorothy Udeme at Nigerian firm Dorothy Ufot & Co joins as International Arbitration and Dispute law member

January 21, 2014

Dorothy has consistently been ranked by the International Who’s Who of commercial arbitration since 2009 as one of the world’s leading experts in international commercial arbitration. She is the author of the GAR’s International Arbitration Know-How Nigeria Chapter which can be viewed at GAR’s website at:
http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/knowhow/topics/61jurisdiction/18/nigeria

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