Sentences with phrase «suits against oil companies»

Hagens Berman stands to earn millions, possibly billions, of dollars in contingency fees depending on the total winnings, should San Francisco, Oakland or New York City win their global warming suits against oil companies.

The cities» suits against oil companies, however, do not show an industry conspiracy to suppress climate science from the public, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said, according to journalists who attended the hearing.

Since its first boat patrol into Newtown Creek over eight years ago, Riverkeeper has established itself as the leading pollution enforcer on Newtown Creek, exemplified by its citizen suits against oil companies, cement manufacturers and other polluters.

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In 1906, the year of a peak that was not exceeded for ten years, President Theodore Roosevelt filed his famous suit against the country's largest company, Standard Oil.

In January 2004, Riverkeeper initiated a citizen suit against two of the world's largest oil companies for the largest urban oil spill — right in the heart of New York City.

In July 2013, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East, which maintains levees around New Orleans, filed suit against more than 90 oil, gas and pipeline companies.

-LSB-...] to be hopeful, Colorado is joining the wave of climate lawsuits against big oil companies, and the libertarian Niskanen Center is supporting the suit, the top five wind producing states in the US are all red states, and a nascent practice called -LSB-...]

These suits, which were filed in state court, are part of «a growing body of legal action against oil companies over climate change,» Reuters notes.

Based on a Trans Mountain news release of January 30, 2015, the Burnaby Now reported that the subsidiary of the Texas based Kinder Morgan oil company is «dropping its multimillion - dollar civil suit against all five Burnaby Mountain protestors and is willing to pay their costs.»

The plaintiffs, representing 30,000 indigenous Eduadorian villagers, filed suit in the U.S. in 1993 against the oil companies, before a 2001 judgement directed them to initiate their claims in Eduador instead.

The contribution case arose out a suit brought against an oil recycling company and several family members and an estate of a family member affiliated with the company.

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon weighed in on Louisiana's comparatively high auto insurance rates on Monday (Feb. 17), noting a recent landmark suit filed by the East Bank levee board against oil and gas companies will help further a wider push to revisit tort reform during this year's legislative session.