Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
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Exxon Suffers Stinging Defeat On Shareholder Climate Resolution
Today, Trump looks set to scupper Paris Accord; yesterday, Exxon shareholders passed resolution requiring greater climate change disclosure.
Read more...Fashion Industry Dogged By Sustainability Concerns
Sustainability concerns dog the fashion industry. Millennials rank sustainability high in their buying choices.
Read more...New York Attorney General: Feds Must Address Bakken Crude Oil Bomb Trains. Feds: Maybe Later?
Both parties share credit for the continued failure to impose limits on the volatility of crude oil transported by rail.
Read more...Why Withdrawal or “Tiny” Living Isn’t a Solution to Sustainability
Tiny but isolated living may not be doing the planet as much of a favor as many like to believe.
Read more...Climate Change: What Follows as US Surrenders Global Leadership Role?
Shell CEO calls on Trump not to renounce Paris climate accord, but if the US does, other efforts- e.g. Chinese, Indian– will loom larger.
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...Genetically Engineered Disappointments
A looked at sales talk versus results for genetically engineered crops.
Read more...New Jersey’s Flooding Crisis Hits Low-Income People Hardest
New Jersey’s flooding problems as a microcosm of what is to come.
Read more...Secretly Approved in Alaska, Will LNG Trains Soon Appear in Rest of US?
LNG trains were approved in Alaska, in apparent violation of NEPA rules. Are they coming to your state too?
Read more...Dakota Access Pipeline Divestiture and Climate Change Politics
Divestiture initiatives are unlikely to halt DAPL’s construction, but show cautious promise for stopping future US pipeline projects.
Read more...Road to Trump’s Climate Change Hell Paved by Obama and Clinton
TRNN interview with Robert Pollin and Gerald Horne discussing the role of Democrats in setting the scene for Trump’s climate change inaction.
Read more...Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin Signs Law Imposing Hefty Fines and Lengthy Jail Terms for Anti-Pipeline Protests
Oklahoma becomes the first state to enact an anti-trespass law aimed at pipeline protests. Will this spark a national trend targeting protest and dissent?
Read more...Nina Turner: Why Do Politicians Ignore Environmental Issues?
Why is it that the major parties focus on the public health impacts that are a direct result of environmental toxicity and climate change?
Read more...Trump and Congress Use Congressional Review Act to Roll Back 14 ‘Midnight’ Rules; More to Follow?
Republicans use obscure 1996 law to roll back midnight rules. Federal courts are soon likely to consider its limits.
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