Sentences with phrase «warming lawsuits for»

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There were no test tubes or Bunsen burners, but a courtroom turned into a science classroom Wednesday for a U.S. judge considering lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about the role of fossil fuels in the Earth's warming environment.

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 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

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't the authors know about the lawsuit threatened against NIWA the New Zealand official agency by the Climate Science Coalition (CSC) for false lowering of the early record to create a greater warming slope in the New Zealand records.

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.

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.

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.

Born in 1941, he became a climatologist at the University of Iowa, developed the groundbreaking «Zero Model» for projecting climate change, and later became the head of climate research at NASA, only to leave under pressure when, while still a federal employee, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government charging inaction on warming (along the way he got arrested a few times for protesting, too).

The filing highlights how the plaintiffs and activists pushing these lawsuits recognize that their actions have contributed to global warming, but they are trying to avoid any responsibility for their actions.

Thousands of consumers who have filed lawsuits against 3M for their Bair Hugger warming blankets received a favorable ruling this week, as the trial court rejected 3M's arguments to prevent the claims from going to trial.

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.