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...In 2022, West Virginia led the way when it barred five financial firms, including JPMorgan, BlackRock and Goldman, from new state business, saying they were “boycotting” the fossil fuel industry....
..., West Virginia’s attorney-general, told reporters after his state and others including Alabama and Georgia, filed their case....
...Fani Willis, the Georgia district attorney who indicted Donald Trump over seeking to overturn the 2020 election, yesterday fought back against accusations of misconduct related to her relationship with an...
...But despite the district court’s decision legalising corner crossing for the moment, the mood at the table was not celebratory....
...Mere hours after adopting the rule, Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia’s attorney-general, announced he was joining a coalition of 10 states, including Georgia and South Carolina, on Wednesday to challenge...
...Republican states reliant on the fossil fuel industry, including West Virginia and Oklahoma, have banned some asset managers from doing business with them, based on accusations of boycotting fossil fuels...
...bill,” said Camille Sippel, an attorney for ClientEarth....
...indictments, said Yuval Kaplinsky, a lawyer and former member of the state attorney’s office....
...Groups including the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Chamber of Progress filed briefs in support of TikTok in the case, while a Virginia-led group of 18 states threw its support behind...
...She has vowed to press ahead with her White House bid until at least the Super Tuesday contests in a number of states in early March, which will decide a big chunk of delegates to the Republican convention...
...“Eighty-five per cent of the money from the IRA is going to red states,” Kerry pointed out, noting that Republican state governors thus had a vested interest in maintaining the subsidies....
...The state’s attorney-general said Pepsi had failed to warn consumers about the impact of single-use plastic on human health and “misled” the public about its efforts to combat plastic pollution....
...What Sitting on a 1.2 acre plot, this residence on the bank of the river Potomac has a total of eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms in its 16,000 sq ft of living space....
...“Whatever the polls say a lot of those voters will come home [to the main party candidates] or not vote,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Middle East: US secretary of state Antony Blinken meets Gulf state ministers on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s special meeting in Riyadh....
...he says cost less than half the anticipated £1.1bn....
...The US also provides a federal flood insurance programme. This insurance won’t cover vacation homes but it does help about 1.7mn Floridians....
...François-Henri Briard, the lead attorney for the Nicaraguans, told me the court is expected to rule on November 23, and that 11 of the court’s justices sat for the oral arguments this week — more than typically...
...But 150 miles south-west of the nation’s capital, in his largely rural district in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Republican congressman Bob Good is not worried about hitting the federal borrowing...
...And with the Senate so finely balanced already, and the fact that Joe Manchin in West Virginia is not running for re-election, and he was this real kind of unique figure that was able to win in such a Trumpy...
...Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, has relied on the state’s expansive racketeering laws to also bring criminal charges against another 18 individuals, alleging that they conspired to illegally...
...As Republicans target Wall Street’s use of ESG more broadly, conservative state attorneys-general last year opened an investigation into S&P’s use of the factors....
...In a letter after the proposal was issued, 24 Republican state attorneys-general urged the SEC to drop it, predicting it would “undoubtedly draw legal challenges” and “not survive this review”....
...Each day for the past three weeks the reports coming out of besieged Gaza have become ever more grim. Bodies piled in pick-up trucks. Children being pulled from rubble. Residential districts flattened....
...New York’s increasingly popular sailing options also include lessons for kids, as well as socialising for everyone on the days the wind does not puff....
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