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Weather Report #2: Puerto Rico is "perhaps the biggest gas to power opportunity in the world"; Don't Coordinate Drug Buys at Supermarkets with Undercover DEA Agents; Tourist Arrested While Smuggling Gun Through Aguadilla Airport

This one has got it all: New Fortress Energy Q4 investor call, undercover DEA agents involved in a high seas drug operation, and gun smuggling through the airport.

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Weather Report #1: Fossil Fuel Companies Have to Face Climate RICO Claims; New Allegations in New Fortress Energy Securities Litigation; Elvis Crespo Sues Ex-Wife, Music Label for Control Over Recordings

Magistrate judge says fossil fuel companies will have to face part of Puerto Rico municipalities' climate RICO lawsuit. New Fortress Energy's FLNG1 was allegedly "constructed in a manner that risked catastrophic safety disaster."

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'Your Trip is Not International, But It’s Not Really a Domestic'; Secret Service Documents Detail Jill Biden Puerto Rico Visit

Secret Service had to tell its agents Puerto Rico's water was safe to drink.

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CIA Documents Shed Light on Puerto Rico's Role in Bay of Pigs Invasion, Confirm Surveillance of Pro-Independence Activists

New CIA documents released in late December 2024 reveal Puerto Rico's role in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and confirm CIA surveillance of pro-independence activists.

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Catching Up with Puerto Rico's Climate Lawsuits Before 2025 Hits

Half of Puerto Rico and its Department of Justice are suing fossil fuel industries. Here's what's been going on with those cases.

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Big Oil Wants Puerto Rico's $1 Billion Climate Deception Case to go Federal

Chevron filed a notice of removal to remand the Puerto Rican Department of Justice's $1 billion climate deception lawsuit to federal court, which could provide a more "industry-friendly" forum for the fossil fuel industry.

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Puerto Rico DOJ Files Climate Deception Lawsuit Against Big Oil

“The human, natural, and economic devastation provoked by hurricanes Irma and María in 2017 are an advance of the grave consequences related to the climate that Puerto Rico faces as a direct result of the illicit deception by the Defendants,” alleges the complaint.

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There's So Many 'Forever Chemicals' Lawsuits in Puerto Rico

Finding six lawsuits filed against more than 20 companies because of toxic "forever chemicals" sent me down a rabbit hole of PFAS lawsuits in Puerto Rico.

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Clean Energy Laws 'by 20XX' are Science Fiction Stories

Pledges that state 100% renewable energy or net zero by 20XX serve as delay tactics to push actions we could take right now to mitigate the climate crisis into an unlikely future.

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CBP Agent was Intimidated by Superior Officers, Labeled a "Potential Active Shooter" by Colleagues, Federal Lawsuit Alleges

A CBP Agent alleges he was intimidated by superior officers, labeled a “potential active shooter” by colleagues and given a “dees nutz” shirt after filling an equal employment opportunity complaint.

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Documents Detail 4-Day Military Training Exercise in Ceiba and Culebra

Even though the U.S. Navy was expelled from Culebra decades ago, the island remains an important location for military training.

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