Sentences with phrase «fuel companies accountable»

While not requesting damages, the complaint demonstrates another point that we made in Payback Time: each country that suffers climate related impacts have their own laws that can be used to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.

Attorneys for ExxonMobil have revealed a plan to ratchet up pressure on state attorneys general who have vowed to hold Exxon and fossil fuel companies accountable for their conduct on climate change.

«It is appropriate that people are now looking to the courts, instead of legislators, to help hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to sea level rise and other climate impacts,» Kimmell told the East Bay Times.

«It is appropriate that people are now looking to the courts, instead of legislators, to help hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to sea level rise and other climate impacts.»

Their lawsuit is the latest in a string of legal actions by communities that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the problems climate change creates.

«It's fantastic news that cities like New York and Paris are mobilizing to protect their citizens and hold multinational fossil fuel companies accountable for the damage they cause.

Coalition of top state law enforcement officials vows to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their conduct on climate change.

The storm of litigation could have a broad impact if it succeeds in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the kinds of damages they foresaw decades ago, said Harold Koh, a professor of international law at Yale Law School who served as

The storm of litigation could have a broad impact if it succeeds in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the kinds of damages they foresaw decades ago, said Harold Koh, a professor of international law at Yale Law School who served as senior legal adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and a coalition of attorneys general, supported by former Vice President Al Gore, vowed on March 29, 2016, to hold fossil fuel companies accountable if their words and deeds on climate change had crossed into illegality.

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If you're on track to be more than a mom - and - pop shop, it's essential to have a high - quality, accountable financial platform to effectively monitor the health of an organization, fuel business decisions and open your company up to growth capital.

At the end of the day, fossil fuel companies like Kinder Morgan are only accountable to their bottom line — not to the public interest.

There are already several other lawsuits worldwide that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies, including Shell, accountable for their contributions to dangerous climate change, but most are focused on financial compensation.

Instead of offering fossil fuel companies fig leaves for our climate crisis, Governor Brown should be holding them accountable for destroying our planet.»

Pawa is one of many lawyers who, along with advocacy groups, have struggled to hold Exxon and other fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate change.

Holding corporations legally accountable for climate change is a tough challenge because of regulatory and jurisdictional issues, statutes of limitation, the difficulty of assigning specific damages to any one company, and fossil fuel companies» arguments that they acted prudently based on their assessments of risk at the time.