Big Oil’s Plans To Dodge Climate Change Lawsuits
Chevron Says Climate Change Lawsuit 'Not Viable' As It Prepares To Educate Judge On Science
Daniel Fisher, March 21, 2018 (Forbes)
“Five of the world’s largest oil and gas producers have filed a motion to dismiss a climate change lawsuit against them by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco…[A filing by] Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell urged U.S. District Judge William Alsup to dismiss the lawsuit seeking billions of dollars to pay for costs associated with global warming. The oil companies argue the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have repeatedly rejected similar lawsuits against oil companies, the auto industry and electric utilities because Congress has given authority to regulate CO2 emissions exclusively to the Environmental Protection Agency…[The California cities’ attorneys have tried to maneuver around troublesome precedents] by painting their case as a public nuisance lawsuit seeking money to remediate the damages caused by global warming…” click here for more
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