The Clean Air Act was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protect their citizens from conduct that brings harm to communities and costs the taxpayers billions.
Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change, and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.
Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership of individual corporate stocks, including in the fossil fuel industry.
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could be swept away.
