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Massachusetts

Greenhouse gas cuts fail to meet law’s demands, court rules

BOSTON (AP) — The state's highest court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and sided with environmental groups that sued Massachusetts for failing to adopt strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Lawyers for the Conservation Law Foundation, the Massachusetts Energy Consumer Alliance and four Boston and Wellesley teenagers

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Subpoena in Exxon case may be dropped against nonprofit

U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker told a libertarian think tank in Washington that he would withdraw a subpoena slapped on the organization in April as part of a broader investigation into ExxonMobil's stance on global warming — and in the same email threatened more legal actions

Cambridge

MIT hosts lecture tying global warming to Islamophobia

CAMBRIDGE — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a lecture Monday that went where few lectures have gone before: the intersection of Islamophobia and global warming.

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Climate change bullies

Declaring the need for "transformational" action on climate change as a settled question, Virgin Islands' Attorney General Claude Earl Walker recently announced, "We cannot continue to rely on fossil fuel. Vice President Gore has made that clear." (Glad that's all settled!) Walker was

Barack Obama

Paris climate accord signed by 175 nations at UN

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders from at least 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal took a key step forward. But Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz criticized the accord as an attack on American families even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

GOP

GOP senators target taxpayer funding for Kerry’s UN climate change programs

(CNSNews.com) – Taking aim at one of Secretary of State John Kerry's most cherished causes, a group of Republican senators is warning him that the administration will violate U.S. law if it does not cut off funding to the U.N.'s climate change agency and

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Judge Planet and the Planeteers

I thought my capacity for shock at judicial activism was exhausted, but an April 8 decision by a federal judge to allow a group of children to sue the federal government to stop climate change literally caused me to burst out laughing. The Left, of course, is giddy. Plaintiffs'

Maura Healey

Exxon challenges demand for climate-change documents

DALLAS (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. is squaring off against government investigators, including in Massachusetts, who believe the energy giant covered up knowledge of how fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Exxon went to state court this week in Texas to quash a subpoena issued last month by the attorney general