elections have consequences

1. FTC's investigation into the Exxon-Pioneer deal revealed an elaborate campaign by Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield to collude with OPEC officials and inflate oil prices.

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Should the @ECB brief Banque de France because this is not true and contradicts the 2021 statement adopted in the context of the Monetary policy strategy review (adopted with Villeroy de Galhau’s support)…?

The Lisbon 2024 Climate Conference is on October 24.

This year's theme, 'Human Rights and Climate Change: Where Next?' is timely and crucial as recent cases such as La Oroya (IACtHR) and Verein KlimaSeniorinnen (ECtHR) affirm the enduring presence of climate litigation.

Breaking: Office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander & the NYC employees' pension fund announced it will use its shareholder power to vote against the CEO of Saudi Aramco retaining a seat on the board of BlackRock — and is urging other $BLK shareholders to vote against him too.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Was just telling my kids how at Princeton in the late 90s some students occupied the President’s office for weeks, and everyone treated it as totally mundane. At Bard where I grew up it happened all the time. Heard that Guidos office at YLS was occupied too.

Big Basel III Endgame news from Katanga Johnson

blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/S…

Yesterday Elon Musk laid off the entire Tesla Supercharger team. He said Tesla plans to slow its EV charging development.

It's difficult to overstate the impact this will have on the EV charging market.

Last year, Tesla built ~56% of all fast-chargers in the U.S.

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Super interesting to note the contrast between the way Brown University and Columbia University have handled these protests. Brown agreed to a governance vote about divestment, the encampment there dissolved.

Paul Auster listed his favourite books in 2007

Today’s sentence for ⁦CZ 🔶 BNB⁩ confirmed what I wrote in January - Binance got away with a slap-on-the-wrist. Thus concludes DoJ’s post-SBF victory lap. thehill.com/opinion/financ…

The fossil fuel industry has lied about their role in climate change for far too long.

LIVE: Senate Budget Committee holds a hearing to hold Big Oil companies and their enablers accountable for their deception. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

'BNEF estimates annual worldwide public-charging revenue will rise to $127 billion by 2030, with [Tesla] on track to mop up $7.4 billion, or around 6%, of all that business' netting $740 million in annual profits. And yet, today Musk laid off the entire Tesla charger team?!

I wasn’t paid that much as a postdoc at Yale. 😅

Nice to see our paper on the impact of voluntary bank net-zero commitments covered by Eshe Nelson in the The New York Times today.

The paper is joint work with Pari Sastry and david marques-Ibanez. 1/

CJEU, financial services law
New judgment - Latvia partly successful claiming that Sweden breached deposit guarantee law - rare case of one Member State bringing infringement proceedings against another Member State
curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Just in 👀: Commission and national consumer protection authorities starts action against 20 airlines for misleading greenwashing practices

ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Can we agree that no apostille for official documents should be required between EU Member states? Some Consulates seem not to have gotten the memo, decades later... oO

Wind and solar account for one-quarter of EU electricity for first time

It's not April fools' day anymore, The New York Times...
nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…