These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters

Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates… These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/proposal-fossil-fuel-companies-insurance-costs  

Time to Wake Up 296: Looters and Polluters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmR18s-QP9s

 

Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit

COCA-COLA WAS found for the second year in a row to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash conducted by the Break Free From Plastic global movement. The giant soda company was responsible for more plastic litter than the next top three polluters combined. https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/coca-cola-plastic-waste-pollution/

Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump’s first two years, analysis shows - The Washington Post

Civil penalties for polluters under the Trump administration plummeted during the past fiscal year to the lowest average level since 1994, according to a new analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/civil-penalties-for-polluters-dropped-dramatically-in-trumps-first-two-years-analysis-shows/2019/01/24/7384d168-1a82-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html

Trump’s EPA Doesn't Seem to Want to Punish Law-Breaking Polluters - Mother Jones

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more likely to give polluters a pass when they violate laws intended to keep the air healthy and water clean, according to recent reporting by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/01/trumps-epa-doesnt-seem-to-want-to-punish-law-breaking-polluters/

Trump Locks Up Immigrant Kids, but Not Bankers or Polluters - The Daily Beast

Laws are never meant to be enforce absolutely and without exception. That is totalitarianism, not democracy. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-locks-up-immigrant-kids-but-not-bankers-or-polluters