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

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” Here’s a roundup of what these AGs have been doing to make a bad situation worse.

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Mine Cleanup Law Weakened By Coal’s Decline

Circle of Blue

Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use. Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. In the eastern U.S., Photo © U.S.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” His reply ?

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Illinois Utilities Ameren and ComEd Plan for the Grid of the Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2 Starting with stakeholders.

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A Trip Down Memory “Train”: A Brief History of Public Transit

Union of Concerned Scientists

These corporations and politicians don’t want to see a transformational transportation system we need, one that prioritizes people before highways, health before harm, access before asphalt, climate before corporations, freedom over fossil fuels. How did we get here? Why aren’t there more ways to get around my community?

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court.

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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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