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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures

Greenbuilding Law

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx standards for new cars itself. These are called Tier 1 standards.

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Gov. Shapiro Joins Industry, Labor, Environmental, Consumer Leaders To Highlight New Energy Plan To Create Jobs, Lower Costs For Pennsylvanians

PA Environment Daily

The Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), which would be updated under the Governor’s PRESS plan, is a 2004 Pennsylvania law requiring electricity suppliers to include specific percentages of renewable energy in their supply, in turn creating increased demand for renewable energy. Click Here for Gov. Read more here.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 6.2.22

PA Environment Daily

Wheezing Power Grid Leaves States At Risk [Not PJM/PA] -- Bloomberg: Here’s How The Government Wants To Disaster-Proof Your Home PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: Delaware County Man Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Other States/National/International -- WPost: A Summer Of Blackouts?

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

CorpWatch Stories Stalled Case Against ExxonMobil Sees Movement Jacqueline Koch | Special to CorpWatch | July 14, 2004 After languishing in the courts for two years, a lawsuit that accuses ExxonMobil of complicity in human rights violations is beginning to move, thanks to the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Alien Tort Claims Act.

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