Sentences with phrase «global warming lawsuits»

I detailed Pawa's connection with the California version of this Vermont case in my March 30, 2018 blog post, regarding how he was demanding Association of International Automobile Manufacturers documents, which he ultimately later cited in his twin current CA / NYC global warming lawsuits without saying where those AIAM documents came from.

Since Bookbinder is both currently a litigator in a set of global warming lawsuits against industries which supposedly paid «shill scientists» to lie, and was involved in a similar way back in 2010 as the Mother Jones article points out, those are relevant questions to ask.

As a Sierra Club alumnus, you'd think Bookbinder would suggested the inclusion of the same set of «leaked industry memos» in the Colorado trio of lawsuits that are used to indict «crooked skeptic scientists» in the San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach v. Chevron and Santa Cruz (plural) / Richmond v. Chevron sets of California global warming lawsuits.

The Mother Jones article inadvertently reveals one other connection to the current collection global warming lawsuits in its description of Bookbinder's work in the then - current Vermont Green Mountain Chrysler - Plymouth - Dodge et al v. Crombie et al lawsuit:

One name I didn't recognize while collecting the pair of references below (click image to enlarge) for my March 30, 2018 blog post about Pawa's AIAM documents «discovery process» — since the Colorado global warming lawsuits news hadn't been announced yet — was David Bookbinder.

What does essay writer Hackney say could be used to exclude Dr Idso from global warming lawsuits?

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered parties in a landmark global warming lawsuit to hold what could be the first - ever U.S. court hearing on the science of climate change....

In a statement at the Heartland Institute, Wojick describes a global warming lawsuit brought by 21 children and young adults against the Trump administration as a «reprehensible political stunt»: [24]

«COURT URGED TO DISMISS GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT (Connecticut v. American Electric Power Company, Inc.)» (PDF), Washington Legal Foundation.

Not exact matches

New York City is taking on the oil industry on two fronts, announcing a lawsuit Wednesday that blames the top five oil companies for contributing to global warming and saying the city will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city's...

The premise of the lawsuit is that the oil companies lied about global warming.

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.

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.

The lawsuit began in 2015, when a group of kids, young adults and environmentalists sued the U.S. government and top officials for failing to protect them from the dangers of global warming

The case stems from two 2004 federal lawsuits brought by seven states and several land - trust groups alleging that emissions from five major power companies could cause harm by contributing to global warming.

The Supreme Court, hearing its biggest - ever case on the issue of global warming, spent half of its time Tuesday indulging in a desire to keep the federal courts involved in such cases, and half the time addressing the seeming reality that such a case would simply not be manageable as a lawsuit.

Just wanted to let you know that I have filed a class action lawsuit on global warming in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, against all current leaders on all nations on Earth, in behalf of all future generations not born yet, forever and ever, as long as this human species shall last...... and for US$ 1 billion in damages, to be donated if case is accepted and won to groups fighting global warming now!

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

I'm not a lawyer, either, but that didn't prevent me from being bewildered by the lawsuit maneuver reported in the LA Times «s February 8, 2018 «Chevron fights California cities» climate - change lawsuits with «creative lawyering»» news item, regarding Chevron's action in the San Fransisco / Oakland global warming cases.

If at first you don't succeed with winning your global warming nuisance lawsuits, try, try again.

Kassie Siegel, the lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, a group based in Arizona that took the lead in the lawsuit calling on the department to list the polar bear, added, «I don't see how even this administration can write this proposal without acknowledging that the primary threat to polar bears is global warming and without acknowledging the science of global warming.»

«This email indicates a secret initiative by the administration to invite and orchestrate a lawsuit against itself seeking to discredit an official US government report on global warming dangers,» said Richard Blumenthal, attorney general of Connecticut, who has written to the White House asking for an inquiry.

• Washington state's King County files a climate change lawsuit against five prominent fossil fuel companies and asks them to establish a fund to pay for the effects of global warming.

Just leave it to so called environmentalists to mismanage forests for years and years through endless lawsuits and misguided legislation, burn said forests to the ground and then claim global warming did it.

The Daily Mail has published a bombshell secret memo sent by leading #ExxonKnew activist - lawyer Matt Pawa to billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, outlining a strategy to bring state - level class action lawsuits against energy companies and charging them with causing global warming.

Enviro - activists believe they are headed toward the light at the end of the tunnel on the man - caused global warming issue with this growing collection of lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

Basically, the lawsuits imply lies / misinformation about the otherwise certain harm of smoking and man - caused global warming could be bought from Dr Singer.

(Aside: The same question could be posed about the 2008 Kivalina v Exxon global warming nuisance lawsuit, where the citation for the ICE campaign strategy / targeting memos was, in part, the New York Times, which in turn said the source was the Sierra Club, which to this day acts as though the event never happened.

A news release announcing the lawsuit claimed that various procedural rules had been violated during the process of developing the report, labeling it «junk science» and a «$ 14 million compilation of global warming scare stories.»

That is a central issue in a recent lawsuit by Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a host of lawmakers and several companies, who are petitioning the Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision upholding the EPA's global warming regulations.

We watch Peter Evans as he meets the legal and scientific team assembled by NERF to prosecute the sea level rise lawsuit, and here the story really slows down as the NERF team tries to educate Evans about the uncertainties of the Global Warming theory.

The wonderful part of this for the industries who run F.U.D. campaigns is that it gives them a legal «out:» When the lawsuits start, they can point out that scientists had been warning people for decades about (tobacco, global warming).

Cities» climate lawsuits build on past legal efforts from states attorneys general looking to punish Exxon for allegedly covering up global warming.

Perhaps this situation description could have been credited to Al Gore, if Gansler picked it up from the Q&A session at the end of the big «Exxon Knew» March 2016 press conference conducted by NY State AG Eric Schneiderman, where Gore said this in response to a reporter asking about the comparison of the global warming issue to the tobacco industry lawsuits settlement situation:

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

Our Children's Trust incorporated a great deal of the YVFP footage from our film Kids vs Global Warming into their film about Alec Loorz's lawsuit against the Federal Government for failing to regulate carbon emissions.

It started with a lawsuit, when the creator of the global - warming «hockey stick» decided to sue me for defamation.

Meanwhile, someone in the enviro - activist community decided to apply that same kind of complaint to high - level global warming nuisance lawsuits.

Recent examples include a campaign to censor a Washington Post column by Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a Los Angeles Times protocol of not publishing letters skeptical of global warming, and a lawsuit to discredit the brilliant satirist Mark Steyn, who, as humorists are wont to do, mocked a pompous proponent of global warming.

This was the same lawsuit where Pawa also used the infamous subset of «leaked ICE campaign memos» having the strategy to «reposition global warming» (with its tortured citation sources for them) to insinuate an industry conspiracy to spread misinformation and lies.

Climate inactivists, if you Monckton truly is right, then you should strongly urge him to bring his lawsuit against Gore and Hansen, so that he can stop this multi-billion-dollar global warming «scam» right away!

is potentially the killer of the lawsuit, and if more people fully comprehend his position, it could kill the entire notion of an «industry conspiracy to misinform the public about global warming.»

He also vowed to aggressively pursue West Virginia's lawsuit against EPA until a more «sensible» approach can be found to regulate coal's global warming emissions.

It is true that global warming alarmists are filing multiple lawsuits to use the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act to cause a regulatory trainwreck...

For no apparent reason, the state of California, Environmental Defense, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have dragged Lindzen and about 15 other global - warming skeptics into a lawsuit over auto - emissions standards.

But a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.

The judge said he read the lawsuit's allegations to mean «that there was a conspiratorial document within the defendants about how they knew good and well that global warming was right around the corner.

Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, is set to be deposed today by lawyers for a group of 21 young plaintiffs, aged 9 to 20, who filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty, and property by not taking action to halt global warming.

The Green Policy Fairness Coalition already cites efforts by global warming alarmists to use lawsuits against the federal and state governments bypass the legislative process.