Sentences with phrase «warming lawsuits in»

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:

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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

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!

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....

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.

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.»

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).

(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.

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]

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.

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 lawsuit, which is brought by a collective called Our Children's Trust and is often described as «kids versus climate change,» is built on an appeal to the equal - protection clause, namely, that in failing to take action on warming, the government is violating it by imposing massive costs on future generations; it is scheduled to be heard this winter in Oregon district court.

In defending their bonds from the threat of a SEC investigation, these municipalities have either provided additional evidence that their lawsuits exaggerated the risks of global warming — or, even worse, that they downplayed those risks to investors and then paid someone to say otherwise.

Entertaining how the NRDC played a role of some sort with one of the global warming nuisance lawsuits, the Connecticut v American Electric Power, while another of those global warming nuisance lawsuits, Comer v. Murphy Oil had wording within its documents stating «The API [American Petroleum Institute] and other Oil Company Defendants have engaged in concerted financial activity — far in excess of $ 1 million — in furtherance of a tortious civil conspiracy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — details I described in my previous blog post.

«This is the criminalization of opposition to global warming,» says Lindzen, who adds he has never communicated with the auto companies involved in the lawsuit.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- The above post contains a small portion of updated and altered material out of the original I had at Breitbart.com in 2010, «Global Warming Nuisance Lawsuits Are Based on a Fatal Flaw»

Fifth Circuit grants rehearing en banc of lawsuit alleging that the operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming, resulting in the harms caused by Hurricane Katrina: Nine judges participated in last week's order granting rehearing en banc.

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 Sein 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 SeIn 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 Sein 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.