Youth plaintiffs have won a rare victory against a US state government for promoting climate-killing fossil fuels. A tsunami of climate-related lawsuits are set to follow.
Climate change has become the latest opportunity for abuse of the legal system. For many decades, liberals have turned to the courts when the democratic policymaking process has posed obstacles to their grandiose plans. Now, left-leaning cities and counties want to distort tort law, our nation’s basic system for resolving accidents and harms, to seek outlandish damages from energy companies for the alleged harms of global warming.
Extreme heat presents multiple challenges to our planning, response, and management systems. While the consequences of extreme heat can be deadly, they can be avoided with a coordinated and comprehensive federal response.
Youth plaintiffs have won a rare victory against a US state government for promoting climate-killing fossil fuels. A tsunami of climate litigation is set to follow.
Attorney Jeffrey B. Simon helped families affected by the opioid crisis obtain settlements worth more than $2.7 billion against leading pharmaceutical companies. Now, he's part of a legal team taking on Big Oil over the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome disaster and says the era of fossil fuel companies…