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Despite Immelt's pledge that it's a new green day at GE, it would be a mistake to think the company has quit protecting its less eco-friendly interests. GE has a history of opposing environmental regulations that don't suit the firm. In 2000, superstar lawyer Laurence Tribe asked the U.S. Supreme Court, on GE's behalf, to throw out EPA standards for smog and soot (the court declined). In 2003, GE was part of an industry coalition that lobbied for revised EPA regulations allowing utilities and refineries to modernize their oldest and dirtiest facilities, in some cases...
...mowing his lawn while wearing a suit...
...pushed the university to sell its $4.4 million stake in Petro- China, which has oil contracts in Sudan, and Stanford said it would divest its holdings in four energy firms that operate there. Dartmouth and the University of California are among the schools that have said they might follow suit...
Harvard has resisted providing the military with information on its students in the past. The Law School is currently involved in a suit that will be tried before the Supreme Court, protesting the Solomon Amendment, a law that requires schools to give military recruiters access to their students in exchange for federal funding...
Harvard and its star economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 said earlier this month they had reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government in a five-year-old fraud suit that has spanned two continents and embarrassed both the University and the professor...