Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against fossil»

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.

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.

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.

In September 2017, San Francisco and Oakland filed lawsuits against fossil fuel energy companies, «blaming them for the effects of climate change.»

But in an unanticipated twist, the report also demonstrates how the municipalities may have exaggerated the risks of climate change in their lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

The past several months have seen BC communities publicly demand that the fossil fuel industry pay a share of climate costs, while in California 5 communities have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies for the costs of preparing for climate change.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

Dec. 20, 2017: Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz County file lawsuits in California Superior Court against 29 fossil fuel companies, seeking compensation for climate change - related damage.

The lawsuit against Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips is the latest from a coastal city seeking to hold fossil fuel producers accountable.

New York City made history this week with its divestment announcement and lawsuit against Big Oil companies, but the fight for a fast and just transition to a Fossil Free World is just beginning.

Closer to home, a lawsuit filed by 21 youth plaintiffs (including Kelsey Juliana) and world - renowned climate scientist James Hansen on behalf of future generations against the U.S. government cleared an important hurdle in November 2016 when federal judge Ann Aiken rejected the government and fossil fuel industries» motion to dismiss the case.

San Francisco filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against five oil and gas companies alleging that the carbon emissions from their fossil fuel production had created an unlawful public nuisance.

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.

Two California communities — San Francisco and Oakland — filed lawsuits this week against a number of fossil fuel companies for their climate impacts.

These new lawsuits join several actions launched against private fossil fuel companies for climate impacts in recent years:

This ground - breaking research will likely be used in any climate lawsuits brought against fossil fuel companies, as well as in other types of legal proceedings — as the Human Rights Complaint demonstrates.

Such action would take the form of «climate accountability letters» sent by the local governments, demanding fossil companies to take responsibility for the harm their product are causing, but we are also asking the local governments to consider bringing a class action lawsuit — a joint lawsuit on behalf of all BC local governments — against some of the world's largest fossil fuel cartels.