A paper published in Harvard Environmental Law Review argues fossil fuel companies have been “killing members of the public at an accelerating rate.” It says oil giants’ awareness their pollution could have lethal consequences solidly fits within the definition of homicide.
The federal government should take legal action against the petroleum industry, as it once did against Big Tobacco, a former federal litigator told the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday. Major oil and gas companies have misled and endangered the public in a manner similar to the tobacco industry, said Sharon Eubanks, a former Justice Department lawyer who…
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LOOKING AHEAD: A Senate Budget Committee hearing scheduled for next week raises the question of whether there might be some form of revival of the House Democratic probe in the 117th Congress into oil companies and whether they’ve evaded accountability for climate change. The details: On next Wednesday, May 1, the Senate Budget Committee is hosting