Michael Copley
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However, Judge Tanya Chutkin said the EPA hasn't provided evidence of wrongdoing. As for comment, the EPA pointed to a social media post by Administrator Lee Zeldin saying he won't rest until the money is returned to the U.S. Treasury. Michael Copley, NPR News.
There's a lot of news happening. You want to understand it better, but let's be honest, you don't want it to be your entire life either. Well, that's sort of like our show, Here and Now Anytime. Every weekday on our podcast, we talk to people all over the country about everything from political analysis to climate resilience, video games. We even talk about dumpster diving on this show.
Check out Here and Now Anytime, a daily podcast from NPR and WBUR.
Stanford climate research scholar Michael Wara says the question for lawmakers is whether that approach is sustainable or whether we need to be thinking about giving money back to people.
Lawsuits in various state courts allege the fossil fuel industry misled the public about the dangers its products pose to the Earth's climate. They're aimed at forcing companies to help pay for damages from more extreme storms, heat waves, and rising sea levels. A group of Republican attorneys general had argued the lawsuits threaten other states' sovereignty and the future of the U.S.
energy industry. The American Petroleum Institute, an industry group, said it's disappointed by the Supreme Court decision, but that climate policy is an issue for Congress to debate, not the courts. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court turned down a request from oil companies to block a climate lawsuit in Hawaii. Michael Copley, NPR News.
It's a mistake. It's symbolically a mistake. There should be talks with our... colleagues in Ukraine first, substantial talks, not just the kind of episodic conversations they've had, including in Munich. Second, we should talk to our European allies first, and then we should go to a meeting with the Russians with a consolidated, agreed position.
I've been here for an extradition hearing. It's for an Israeli private investigator who's accused by the U.S. of orchestrating a hacking operation against American climate activists. The privatized name is Amit Forlet. He was arrested earlier this year at London's Heathrow Airport. And we should say at the top, Forlet is previously denied ordering or paying for hacking.
So a British lawyer representing the U.S. Justice Department said Forlet was allegedly working for an unnamed public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C., and that that firm was allegedly representing one of the world's biggest oil and gas companies based in Texas, again unnamed. The lawyer said the oil and gas company wanted to discredit activists connected to climate change litigation.
government hasn't named the companies. No, it hasn't. We did hear from one of Forlet's lawyers this week. She said in court that the U.S. is trying to prosecute Forlet for leading a hacking operation that was allegedly commissioned by a public affairs firm called DCI Group that was representing ExxonMobil. The Justice Department didn't respond to a message seeking comment.
It hasn't accused Exxon or DCI of wrongdoing. Exxon and DCI declined to comment on being mentioned in court before the hearing in London. Both said in emails to NPR that they haven't been involved in hacking.
So there have been media reports stating that the U.S. has investigated DCI as part of its hacking probe. Before the London hearings, a source familiar with the probe confirmed to NPR that the U.S. has investigated DCI's possible role in the hacking. The source wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
NPR hasn't found what, if any, links the Justice Department thought DCI may have had with the hacking campaign. And we have not found any indications that the Justice Department investigated Exxon Mobil. So it sounds like the government and journalists have been pursuing this hacking investigation for a while. Yeah, so the government investigation became public in 2019.
A business associate of Forlitz was arrested in the U.S. He eventually pleaded guilty to hacking-related charges, and in 2023, a federal judge sentenced him to more than six years in prison. In that case, federal prosecutors said stolen information was leaked to the media and that ExxonMobil's lawyers used the media coverage to try to fight state climate investigations.
Federal prosecutors did not accuse ExxonMobil of any wrongdoing. The company said at the time that it had not been involved in hacking. Okay, so where do things go from here? I mean, you know, it's been years since the hacking allegedly started, but the victims say it's critical for the U.S. to find out who ordered it. Matt Powell is one of the victims and an environmental lawyer.
He says finding out what happened is important for punishing whoever was ultimately responsible.
For now, we're waiting to see if the UK extradites Forlet. Another extradition hearing is expected in the coming weeks.
Power demand is rising because companies are building new data centers and factories, and because homes and businesses are buying things like cars and heat pumps that run on electricity. And more homes need air conditioning. For utilities that have to keep the lights on, the fossil fuel natural gas looks like a good way to meet that growing demand.
And that could mean decades of additional emissions that are raising global temperatures. Market analysts say that may not lead to a spike in climate pollution since coal plants keep retiring. But scientists say the world needs to move a lot faster to cut heat-trapping emissions to avoid even more extreme impacts from climate change. Michael Copley, NPR News.
The U.S. created about as much climate pollution last year as it did the year before, as emissions rose from buildings, transportation and power plants. That's according to estimates by the Rhodium Group, a research firm. the U.S. will need to make much deeper cuts of more than 7% annually in the coming years to meet a commitment it made under the Paris Agreement to slash heat-trapping pollution.
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