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30 Years of U.S. Climate Policy

Legal Planet

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. 2007 Supreme Court decides Massachusetts v. Bush EPA denies waiver to allow California to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars. EPA approves waiver for California to regulate CO2 from new cars.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. The genesis of ExxonMobil’s brazen hypocrisy can be traced back to 2007. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. We can’t tell,” Running reportedly answered.

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Children Will Suffer the Consequences of Recent Supreme Court Rulings

Union of Concerned Scientists

In a craven denial of climate impacts amid the political influence of oil, gas and coal companies, the court put children in the firing line of fossil fuel pollution and climate change, rather than rescue them from harm’s way. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

million yuan in 2019 over price-fixing on Lexus cars in eastern Jiangsu province. million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T SEC 2019) Toyota Motor Corporation Subsidiaries (via U.S. China fined Toyota 87.6