Big Oil Could Help Shipowner Avoid Liability For Bridge Collapse
The company linked to the Baltimore disaster aims to use a 173-year-old “Titanic Law” to avoid paying big damages — after fossil fuel and other industries lobbied to stop reforms.
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The company linked to the Baltimore disaster aims to use a 173-year-old “Titanic Law” to avoid paying big damages — after fossil fuel and other industries lobbied to stop reforms.
Plus, big electric utilities face heat, decarbonization projects take off, feds crack down on corporate misconduct, and Biden’s new judge nominee is blasted for her hedge-fund past.
Plus, immigrants catch a break in some states, environmental regulators combat cancer at its source, and states are taking on the gun lobby.
After Biden paused liquid natural gas exports, fossil fuel-backed Democrats have worked to undo the climate win.
Plus, Apple’s favorite repair restriction may soon be banned, college athletes score a historic labor win, and the tide may be turning on anti-LGBTQ bills.
A state effort to outlaw workplace heat-protection standards is a preview of what will happen as the GOP’s war on workers collides with our climate reality.
Plus, the nation’s ports are getting a makeover, an anti-trans measure is dead on arrival, and a fracking loophole gets plugged.
Plus, consumers could be protected from insurer meltdowns, dueling communities reach rare agreement over water rights, and rural America scores access to clean water.
Plus, funding arrives for cleaner energy technologies, insurers’ care-denial bots are put on notice, and regulators tackle an airborne killer.
Plus, more states make Big Oil pay for climate change, new consumer protection rules block junk fees, and the EPA strengthens regulations for forever chemicals.