Climate disaster survivors urge Merrick Garland, DOJ to prosecute Big Oil
Survivors of “climate disasters” are calling on federal prosecutors to bring fossil fuel companies to court.
The more than 1,000 signatories of Thursday’s letter to the Department of Justice lived through wildfires, floods and heat waves caused or exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels.
Major oil companies have “known since the 1950s about the dangers posed by burning fossil fuels,” they wrote.
“Instead of acting responsibly on their own scientists’ warnings, they waged a decades-long disinformation campaign to muddy the science and confuse and mislead the public.”
Though scientists at fossil fuel companies like Exxon projected current levels of planetary heating with startling accuracy, the industry spent decades fighting climate science, and currently contests federal regulation and financial tools that seek to slow it.
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