Sentences with phrase «cities against fossil fuel»
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New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.
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A manufacturers group slammed the city's lawsuit against oil companies and its divestment from fossil fuel businesses.
De Blasio announced last month that the city had filed a lawsuit against BP, Chevron, Conoco - Phillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, claiming their fossil fuels produce 11 percent of the Earth's global - warming gases.
IT IS a potentially historic move: the coastal Californian counties of Marin and San Mateo, together with the City of Imperial Beach, have each filed a lawsuit against some of the world's largest fossil fuel producers.
The judge in the cities» lawsuit against fossil fuel companies has ordered the contrarians to reveal who paid for their research and any connections to the case.
Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.
Going a step further, New York City launched a lawsuit against the top fossil fuel companies.
Jan. 22, 2018: City of Richmond files lawsuit in California Superior Court against 29 fossil fuel companies.
The proceeding, scheduled for March 21 by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies pitted against those for San Francisco and Oakland — California cities that have accused fossil fuel interests of covering up their role in contributing to global warming.
Jan. 9, 2018: New York City files suit in federal court against five fossil fuel companies over climate change - related costs.
The lawsuit against Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips is the latest from a coastal city seeking to hold fossil fuel producers accountable.
In their defense against the cities suing over sea level rise damages, the oil industry lawyers essentially argued that the blame lies not on the producers, but rather the consumers of fossil fuels, and that any economic issues should be addressed through policy rather than in the court system.
Their mindset of «us against city - slickers» distracts from everything the wind business has in common with fossil fuel, mining and logging interests.
The Mayor also announced that the City has filed a lawsuit against the five largest investor - owned fossil fuel companies as measured by their contributions to global warming.
Fossil fuel companies responded by leveling the ludicrous charge of «conspiracy» against state attorney generals while also using subpoenas to intimidate cities.