Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google NewsWe’ve turned a big corner when it comes to electrification of the auto industry. Just 5–10 years ago, automakers were largely laughing at electric cars, slow-walking the transition, and had modest electrification plans. That changed with the anticipation for and arrival of the Tesla Model 3, EU regulations requiring than automakers actually sell EVs (which automakers unsuccessfully tried to get watered down), and China’s booming EV market. Automakers started announcing big plans for electric vehicle sales and new electric vehicle models. Nonetheless, despite all of that, every automaker continues to lobby against EVs, and thus against efforts to stop runaway global heating.“New InfluenceMap analysis finds that negative lobbying by the world’s largest automakers is putting global climate targets at risk and threatening the transition to electric vehicles,” the nonprofit think tank InfluenceMap writes

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google NewsThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had proposed a rule mandating that public companies report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The idea was to provide information on material risks to investors and to spur companies’ customers and employees to force emissions reductions. But corporations will do nearly anything to hide the true cost of their climate pollution, and the lobbying pressure against full disclosures won out.The SEC now requires a mere baseline transparency around climate risks and emissions, and only “large accelerated filers” and “accelerated filers” must disclose Scope 1 and 2 emissions.Meanwhile, corporations continue to create feel-good campaigns in which they boast about their zero emission goals and progress — while they’re lobbying against policies to slow the problems their carbon emissions cause.As CNN reports, the vast majority of the world’s biggest companies have done almost nothing in the past 5 years to cut their planet-heating pollution enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. In fact, large companies are either more likely to contribute to extreme levels of warming or are not disclosing their greenhouse gas emissions at all. These conclusions take into account direct emissions from operations as well as indirect emissions from use of the companies’ products

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