Oil and gas companies are asking the Supreme Court to block dozens of high-powered lawsuits from California to Massachusetts seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in costs related to climate change.

They are urging the justices to intervene now and rule that climate change is a global phenomenon and a matter for federal law, not one suited to state-by-state claims.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    71 month ago

    They are urging the justices to intervene now and rule that climate change is a global phenomenon and a matter for federal law, not one suited to state-by-state claims.

    And then turn around and bribe lobby Congress to obstruct any federal laws. Easier to bribe lobby half of Congress than each state.

    • @pelespiritOPM
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      51 month ago

      Also, that global phenomenon part, they’re global corporations doing global evil shit.

  • @_core
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    41 month ago

    A global phenomena that they locally contributed to.