The state of New York will charge carbon-emitting companies an estimated $75 billion in climate damage they allegedly caused between 2000 and 2018 under a law enacted on Dec. 26.
Adopted by lawmakers in June, the law—which goes into effect in 2028—will annually assess large companies’ carbon emissions across those first 19 years of the 21st century to “repair damage caused by extreme weather” they said aggravated by greenhouse gas emissions.
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Is that even legal? I was under the impression that new laws cannot be applied retroactively.
It's called an ex post facto law and it is explicitly forbidden in Article 1 of the constitution.
New York’s handgun ban was also illegal-
It took 120 years for the supreme court to strike it down.
Kathy Hochul modified it and reinstated it within hours…
As they showed us with the Trump cases, "legal" is whatever they want it to be.
it's legal because they say so
the state of new york will uphold it
After chasing all their sources of tax revenue out of the state? Good luck even keeping the lights on in the courthouses.