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...Exxon, alongside other oil companies including Chevron and Shell, is facing landmark legal challenges in the US from cities, counties and states for campaigns of alleged “deception” about climate change...
...(Simon Mundy) EPA chief Michael Regan: ‘It’s easy to be cynical’ Michael Regan took the helm of the US Environmental Protection Agency in 2021 after an extraordinary four years for the regulatory body...
...the law greater protection from legal challenges....
...Five thousand businesses in 83 countries and 156 industries are Certified B Corporations, meeting rigorous social and environmental standards....
...However, Bebchuk et al conclude that this throws the ball into the government’s court....
...The Biden administration also faces lawsuits from environmentalists over the sale of oil and gas leases on federal lands, and from Republican lawmakers seeking to limit the Environmental Protection Agency...
...The structure offers companies more than simply legal protection for their efforts to take a longer-term, more sustainable approach to business....
...China’s Nasdaq-style Star Board was launched with much fanfare in July 2019, features innovative companies in sectors such as IT, biomedical sciences, energy and environmental protection....
...“The concept is comply or explain,” said Mr di Sibio, who argues this action will have a snowball effect.* Of course this begs another question: what happens to SASB, GRI et al?...
...The deflationary narrative of disruptive technology expounded by Brynjolfsson, McAfee et al runs deep....
...environmental regulations, the report says....
...Companies from Chevron to Verizon have added ESG-related goals to executive compensation schemes. Is there real change beyond the rhetoric?...
...Key climate lawsuits in the US Apr 2007 In Massachusetts v Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court rules that carbon dioxide is a type of pollution that should be regulated by the EPA under...
...The German government has set a 2020 target for at least 50 per cent of German companies with more than 500 employees to have introduced effective human rights protections, the report said....
...On February 27, the US Supreme Court shook them out of this complacency by ruling in Jam v International Finance Corporation that they have only the same limited immunity as states....
...The NRDC, an environmental group, lost the case to the oil company, which was supported by the Reagan administration’s Environmental Protection Agency....
...so that it could become a fully regulated company with more stable earnings....
...Republicans have criticised this approach in cases such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s issuance in 2015 of costly rules designed to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...low-cost companies....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...But now CSV is being accused by Crane et al of ignoring the real tensions between economic and social goals and being based on a shallow conception of the corporation’s role in society....
...protection”....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Shanghai closes plants using lead Shanghai environmental-protection authorities said a battery factory operated by U.S....
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