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Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
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This week on CounterSpin:
In 2023, the California legislature passed legislation that said that big corporations doing business in the state have to tell the public how much pollution they’re emitting throughout their supply chain. But this past January, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups challenged those laws, claiming that making companies disclose the impact of their actions — in this case, their emissions — would force them to publicly express a “speculative, noncommercial, controversial and politically charged message.” That supposedly would make the laws a “pressure campaign” aimed at shaping company behavior.
Unfortunately, some courts are indulging this notion that regulation should be illegal because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say. Fortunately, other courts are calling this self-serving nonsense self-serving nonsense. Public information, our right to know, is on the line here.
Katherine Li addresses this issue in a recent piece for the Lever, where she is an editorial fellow.
The post Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge appeared first on KPFA.
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Manage episode 421680769 series 1191824
This week on CounterSpin:
In 2023, the California legislature passed legislation that said that big corporations doing business in the state have to tell the public how much pollution they’re emitting throughout their supply chain. But this past January, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups challenged those laws, claiming that making companies disclose the impact of their actions — in this case, their emissions — would force them to publicly express a “speculative, noncommercial, controversial and politically charged message.” That supposedly would make the laws a “pressure campaign” aimed at shaping company behavior.
Unfortunately, some courts are indulging this notion that regulation should be illegal because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say. Fortunately, other courts are calling this self-serving nonsense self-serving nonsense. Public information, our right to know, is on the line here.
Katherine Li addresses this issue in a recent piece for the Lever, where she is an editorial fellow.
The post Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge appeared first on KPFA.
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