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2 days agoThe Trump administration's antitrust honeymoon is over
The Justice Department's antitrust chief emphasizes a strong stance against corporate misconduct while remaining open to negotiations.
According to Sen. Warren, TurboTax parent company Intuit donated more than $1 million to Trump's inauguration and has lobbied heavily against the program. (Companies like TurboTax offer similar tax filing services, but for a fee.)
"There's going to be one price trend: that is you will see higher costs for certificates at low producing times of day and seasons," said Daniel Arnesson, of the energy analytics company Veyt. Across a global portfolio, this may make it "fundamentally more expensive" to buy credits. Only a handful of companies including Google and AstraZeneca have backed the more expensive "24/7" hourly-matching and localized approach to clean energy investments that has been proposed for consultation.
Bethanie Carney Almroth described a hostile environment during the UN negotiations on plastic pollution, with personal harassment and intimidation by representatives of chemical companies.
The rise in corporate lobbying for climate action from 3% to 23% reveals a significant shift in how European companies perceive environmental regulations, emphasizing support for climate policies.