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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

Legal Planet

While some national political leaders are backing off their climate commitments , these subnational governments know they have to live with increasing fires , floods and deadly heat waves. Arnold Schwarzenegger helped launch in 2008. So, theyre stepping up and sharing advice for what works. In the U.S., climate policies and programs.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

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corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. at 91-94. [18]

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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. That court ruled that the fossil fuel company plaintiffs had failed to establish their legal authority (i.e., “standing”) to bring the action.

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Opinion: The global response to Trump and Musk cannot be anti-EV rhetoric

A Greener Life

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests.

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Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope

Legal Planet

Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible.

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What today’s students think about climate change

Legal Planet

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. –Sean Post, JD 2022.

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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. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.