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| California Cities Sue Oil Companies over Climate Change |
| 2017-09-22 |
| [Breitbart] City attorneys in San Francisco and Oakland, California, sued five oil companies in two coordinated lawsuits on Tuesday, arguing that the courts should hold these companies responsible for climate change, and force them to financially compensate the cities for harm the plaintiffs claim those companies are causing to the planet’s environment. Can I get rice and beans with that? So very.... below the border. The two cities are suing five of the top petroleum companies from around the world: BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobile, and Royal Dutch Shell. These local municipalities are suing them under California law for being a public nuisance. The lawsuits use virtually identical language, like accusing the oil companies with language such as, "For decades, Defendants have known that their fossil fuels pose risks of ’severe’ and ’catastrophic’ impacts on the global climate through the works and warnings of their own scientists or through their trade association." The cities’ complaints impugn the worst possible motives to the oil companies, comparing their actions to a sustained "propaganda campaign to deceive the public" to encourage "fuel consumption at levels that (as Defendants knew) [were] certain to severely harm the public." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Oil companies should counter sue California for poluting the towns with tons of horse dung all over the streets and extensive smoke in the air from fireplaces during the 1800s on behalf of our ancesters. |
| Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-09-22 18:20 |
| #8 Those oil companies should immediately stop selling gasoline to the cities. After all, the city vehicles apparently run on pixie dust and unicorn farts. Sort of like what Ford did when police agencies sued them over the Crown Victoria cruiser, then went back and tied to order more Crown Vice. Ford refused to sell to those agencies. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-09-22 12:33 |
| #7 not suing Valero or PDVSA? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-09-22 11:14 |
| #6 Talk about a brazen shakedown. I bet that this will lose in court. Their beloved "science" has been proven very faulty at best (and flat out fraud). I would hope the oil companies counter sue. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-09-22 09:53 |
| #5 It worked for Jesse Jackson and his ilk. |
| Posted by: Illeagle 2017-09-22 09:45 |
| #4 I guess the story about a pitcher who went too often the the well is racist, sexist, and homophobic - so they don't teach it nowadays. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-22 03:01 |
| #3 Well I guess oil companies will just have to stop selling in California. Least they be held responsible. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-09-22 00:41 |
| #2 Hey, we're broke! You lawyers get out there and find us some gringo dollars. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-22 00:29 |
| #1 It's a SHAKEDOWN! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-09-22 00:28 |