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‘Climate homicide’: Could Big Oil be sued for disaster deaths?
Oil majors are facing civil lawsuits in courts from Hoboken to Honolulu that could cost the industry hundreds of billions of dollars for its role in producing planet-warming emissions.
Dartmouth study links past U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to global economic damages
The report found just five of the world’s leading emitters of greenhouse gases caused $6 trillion in global economic losses through warming caused by their emissions from 1990 to 2014.
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Dutch court holds Shell liable for climate harm: What happens now?
The oil company is the first to be held individually liable, but climate-justice groups aim to ensure it isn't the last.
www.newyorker.com
Bill McKibben: Amy Coney Barrett should recuse herself in Big Oil’s Supreme Court case
The Justice’s father, who was an attorney for Shell for decades, could have direct knowledge of how the company managed climate threats.
Phillips 66 shareholders support studying climate change impact on Gulf Coast petrochemical facilities
A majority of Phillips 66 investors voted for a shareholder proposal that asked the Houston refiner to produce information about the public health risks of expanding petrochemical operations along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
www.desmogblog.com
California communities argue climate liability suits are based on fossil fuel disinformation campaigns
Lawyers representing California cities and counties suing fossil fuel companies over localized climate impacts argued their cases are based on the companies' alleged campaigns of deception around climate science.
2020 could bring dramatic movement on climate liability
It's been a busy year for energy companies and U.S. locales embroiled in litigation over climate change damages, but the end still isn't in sight for these cases.
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