Why a Tidal Wave of Climate Lawsuits Looms Over the Fossil Fuel Industry

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By GuestSep 28, 2020, 2:51 pm212 pts
Read time: 9 mins By Karen Savage, The Climate Docket. Originally published on The Climate Docket. Amid a summer rife with climate-related disasters, the liability lawsuits came like an advancing flood, first Minnesota and Washington D.C. within days of each other in June, followed by Hoboken, Charleston,…

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