Attorneys General in Five States Choose Fossil Fuel Money Over Constituents

July 17, 2023

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Attorneys general (AGs) for five US states are protecting fossil fuel companies rather than the public interest, according to a March 2023 report by Elliott Negin for the Equation, a publication of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Each of the states—Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas—have sustained billions of dollars in climate change-related damage,” Negin reported, but “their AGs routinely collaborate on lawsuits and other actions to attack federal environmental safeguards.”

For example, the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, has declared his opposition to the “radical climate change movement.” ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/attorneys-general-in-five-states-choose-fossil-fuel-money-over-constituents/