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Right-leaning legal activists along with Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence company have brought sweeping challenges against a cornerstone of legal enforcement in the United States: the right of private groups, people and local governments to sue over violations of many major laws

Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse approval of a startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project’s potential impacts on wildlife, astronomy research and eye safety.

Getty Images/iStockphoto The environmental impact of e-commerce is substantial and growing faster than most organizations can measure. As global e-commerce sales continue to grow, behind that growth sits an expanding physical and digital infrastructure: data centers processing billions of transactio…