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   Meta, In-N-Out Burger challenge California bill requiring some companies   
   to disclose greenhouse gas emissions   
      
   Meta and In-N-Out Burger are challenging a bill from California's state   
   legislature that would require them to disclose their greenhouse gas   
   emissions, documents reveal.   
      
   The Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, or SB 253, passed   
   California's state senate 24-9 on May 30, with a vote from the Assembly   
   pending.   
      
   It would require any company or corporation doing business in the state   
   with annual revenues of more than $1 billion per year to publicly disclose   
   both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions.   
      
   In-N-Out dished out $90,000 to lobby against SB 253 and one other bill,   
   according to reporting by The Lever.   
      
   The outlet revealed that the fast food chain spent nearly $180,000 last   
   year lobbying bills in the California legislature on numerous topics,   
   including one to implement a standardized wage for fast food workers and   
   another that would impose stricter gun control measures.   
      
   Meta paid $48,000 to lobby against SB 253 and other bills, the same   
   reporting showed, and even spent $3.65 million lobbying nationwide in just   
   the fourth quarter of 2022.   
      
   Also expressing opposition to California's SB 253 are Chambers of Commerce   
   from across the state and multiple farming, water and agriculture   
   organizations.   
      
   "Requiring reporting and limiting emissions associated with a company’s   
   entire supply chain will necessarily require that large businesses stop   
   doing business with small and medium businesses that will struggle to   
   accurately measure their greenhouse gas emissions let alone meet ambitious   
   carbon emission requirements, leaving these companies without the   
   contracts that enable them to grow and employ more workers," a coalition   
   of groups opposing the bill wrote to lawmakers, KTVU reported.   
      
   State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat, is the bill’s lead author and says   
   the measure would require corporations to start "walking the talk."   
      
   "Right now, billion-dollar corporations spend more money on anti-climate   
   ads than they would on these disclosures," Wiener said in a statement.   
   "[The disclosures] impose no costs to small businesses, and they are   
   essential to meeting our climate goals."   
      
   https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/meta-in-n-out-burger-challenge-   
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