ExxonMobil may face renewed legal climate challenges

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xxonMobil may face renewed legal challenges from plaintiffs claiming that it should have acted to address the risks of climate change, based on new evidence that its own researchers warned management about the emerging threat decades ago.

In an online petition drive, in public statements and behind the scenes, environmental advocates and their political allies are pressing federal and state authorities to launch investigations, subpoenas or prosecutions to pin down what Exxon knew and when. The oil giant's critics say Exxon might be held liable either for failing to disclose the risks to shareholders and financial regulators, or for manufacturing doubt to deceive people about the science of climate change.

Read the Inside Climate News story - “ExxonMobil Faces Heightened Risk of Climate Litigation, Its Critics Say.”

 

(Any conversation aimed at preserving the global weather conditions which have allowed humanity to thrive is destined to become a little dirty. The “business-as-usual brigade” appears blinded by its sumptuous life-style and will not let go of it without a significant struggle.

Sadly, good sense and reason appears to have little relevance and so it seems that troupe will only respond to actions integral to the machinations of their world, suggesting that legal action aimed at protecting the earth’s “Goldilocks-like conditions” might be the only venue open to those of us worried about humanity’s savaging of the earth – Robert McLean).