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Piquet fined for racist, homophobic comments about Hamilton
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Retired Formula 1 winner Nelson Piquet has been ordered by a Brazilian courtroom to shell out $950,000 in “moral damages” for making racist and homophobic reviews about Lewis Hamilton. The 70-yr-previous Brazilian experienced referred to seven-time champion Hamilton as “neguinho,” a racially offensive time period which usually means “little Black guy,” in 2021. In a different job interview, Piquet used racist and homophobic language. The court docket in Brasilia on Friday purchased Piquet to pay back 5 million Brazilian reals “in collective moral damages, to be allocated to cash for the advertising of racial equality and in opposition to discrimination of the LGBTQIA+ community.” The…
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Three people fined for burning tires and other waste
The Iowa Office of Natural Assets not too long ago arrived at agreements with three folks in distinct pieces of the state who illegally burned tires, creating particles, cars and other waste in the past various several years. Recently released administrative agreements amongst the division and the guys disclosed the following incidents and fines that resulted: James Whistler, of Van Wert in south-central Iowa, was fined $5,000 for illegally accumulating and burning various tires, motor vehicles and other squander. The difficulties day back to September 2017, when someone complained that hundreds of waste tires had been hauled to the website. Less than two months later on, the DNR issued a…
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Maquoketa company fined for burning tires along with trees
Tires were used as fuel to burn trees north of Clinton in December. (Photo courtesy of Iowa DNR) An eastern Iowa company was fined $4,500 for placing waste tires among tree debris to hasten its burning in December, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Someone reported on Dec. 5 a sudden accumulation of tires and a subsequent fire in a rural area north of Clinton near the Mississippi River, DNR records show. A DNR officer who responded to the report saw dark smoke emanating from a stand of trees and talked to the property owner, Thomas Stevenson, who said up to 10 tires had been burned. People are…
