- Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change
Julie Leon died of hyperthermia in Seattle on June 28, 2021 — the hottest day in the city's history A lawsuit claims she was a victim of oil companies' "misrepresentations" about climate change
- Oil Companies Fight Climate Lawsuits by Citing Free Speech
The industry considers these climate lawsuits a major threat Nearly 40 have been filed since 2017 Mr Boutrous said that decision was wrong because the speech described in the lawsuit
- Major oil companies face first climate death lawsuit
In 2015, a landmark Dutch climate change lawsuit known as the Urgenda case employed the tort law principle of "hazardous negligence" to argue that government inaction on climate change constituted
- Wrongful death lawsuit says Big Oil contributed to heat wave . . .
The lawsuit accuses the companies of hiding, downplaying and misrepresenting the risks of climate change caused by humans burning oil and gas and obstructing research International climate researchers said in a peer-reviewed analysis that the 2021 “heat dome” was “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change ”
- Hawaii Sues Big Oil for Alleged Climate Deception After Trump . . .
The lawsuit is likely to face a long uphill battle in the courts Other climate liability cases against these companies brought by government entities have been tied up in procedural skirmishes
- Oil companies face first-ever wrongful death lawsuit over . . .
(CN) — A Washington woman on Thursday filed the first-ever wrongful death lawsuit seeking to hold major oil companies accountable for their role in exacerbating climate change, which she claims sparked an extreme heat wave that killed her mother, Julie Leon, in 2021
- Big Oil Faces First-Ever Lawsuit Over a Person’s Death in a . . .
Ten U S states — California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai`i, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont — and the District of Columbia, along with dozens of city, county, and tribal governments in California, Colorado, Hawai`i, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
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