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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

Law Columbia

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. . By Korey Silverman-Roati and Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Net Zero Pledge Standards for Business Released at COP27

Greenbuilding Law

We must have zero tolerance for net zero greenwashing,” said the Secretary-General at the launch of the Group’s report from Sharm el-Sheikh on November 8, 2022, calling the report “a how-to guide to ensure credible, accountable net zero pledges.”. Phasing out of Fossil Fuels and Scaling Up Renewable Energy 6.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 Georgia Elliott-Smith | Change.org | September 30, 2022 Coca-Cola spends millions of dollars greenwashing their brand, making us believe that they are solving the problem.

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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits

Corp Watch

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, USA: How VW Paid $25 Billion for Dieselgate — And Got Off Easy Roger Parloff | ProPublica | February 6, 2018 Volkswagen paid huge government penalties in the U.S.,

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