American Electric Power (AEP) will be much in the news this week, with an annual shareholder meeting in Tulsa Oklahoma on Tuesday and a speech by AEP’s CEO and President Nick Akins to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. You can count on AEP spending a lot of time during these events talking about

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Something for our lawyer readers: Unless the Court’s decision in AEP is accompanied by greater assistance for climate change victims in the regulatory framework, the Court’s emphasis on the agency pathway risks exacerbating the climate justice problem by providing fewer ways for victims to obtain redress. Moreover, addressing climate justice within a federal regulatory framework

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