(2025-01-13). Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil Over New Law. popularresistance.org In a move that could set a precedent for climate accountability laws across the United States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (API) have filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont. The lawsuit challenges Vermont's groundbreaking law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by climate change, which has increasingly devastated the state through extreme weather events. | The law, passed in 2024, makes Vermont the first state in the nation to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for a share of the financial burden caused by climate change.
(2025-01-13). How Big Developers Crushed Regulation That Could Have Mitigated LA Fires. truthout.org Back in 2019, a California state climate task force issued a stark warning: Endless development in the state's high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying wildfires and putting more people in their path. It was a call that has echoed in the state for decades from environmentalists, urban planners, and policymakers, even as developers pushed to build ever more homes in zones designated as "very… |
(2025-01-12). An overview of the nefarious activities of the "Mutton Crew": From Brexit to covid to climate change and Ukraine. expose-news.com The "Mutton Crew" is an organisation with pharmaceutical and financial interests. Although it has links to the British Army, it is not a military unit but its operatives may have been trained …