New York to make major greenhouse gas emitters pay for past pollution

Published on January 8, 2025

New York state will soon force major oil and gas companies to pay up for mounting climate damages caused by the burning of their products over the last two decades. On December 26, lawmakers passed the Climate Change Superfund Act , modeled after federal and state Superfund laws that retroactively force polluters to…

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