Climate Lawsuits Are About Grabbing Green, Not Going Green.

[rangerrebew]

Climate Lawsuits Are About Grabbing Green, Not Going Green.
How superfund laws and legislators target energy companies for climate cash.
by Donald J. Kochan  Mar 19, 2025

 
In an attempt to commit legislative thievery, New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law on December 26 dubbed the “climate superfund” law. [emphasis, links added]

The new state law assigns a handful of energy producers sole blame for climate change and imposes corresponding financial responsibility for damages alleged to have resulted from it in the past, or which may occur in the future.


It compels the oil and gas companies to pay a shared $75 billion fine into a so-called “climate superfund.”

New York was the second state to launch such a superfund. Vermont did so last July, and it is battling a legal challenge to its law filed on December 30.

A civil lawsuit challenging the New York law has also been filed in federal court on February 6 by state attorneys general, representing 22 states that will be harmed if New York’s law can extraterritorially limit energy production in those states.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-lawsuits-are-about-grabbing-green-not-going-green/

[Smokin Joe]

If they hadn't banned fraccing, pipelines, and such, New York might have more revenue and no need to go nipping at the legs of the companies that move their stuff and keep the lights on, trying to get money out of them.

No good deed goes unpunished.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Climate lawsuits are attempted extortion to stop legal, approved activities and to bankrupt energy corporations.

What is the plaintiffs' legal standard for demonstrating standing and harm to justify a court injunction against a private entity, that will cause financial and reputational harm to that entity?

These lawsuits are assaults against private property rights and the legitimacy of representative Government.

From whom and where do they get the standing, authority, and right to infringe upon the private property rights of a corporation to exist and conduct business approved by the People's representatives?

This lawfare is anti-democratic and anti-private property rights.

[Smokin Joe]

Climate lawsuits are attempted extortion to stop legal, approved activities and to bankrupt energy corporations.

What is the plaintiffs' legal standard for demonstrating standing and harm to justify a court injunction against a private entity, that will cause financial and reputational harm to that entity?

These lawsuits are assaults against private property rights and the legitimacy of representative Government.

From whom and where do they get the standing, authority, and right to infringe upon the private property rights of a corporation to exist and conduct business approved by the People's representatives?

This lawfare is anti-democratic and anti-private property rights.

Even more seminal to their efforts, where is the funding coming from? (Our Tax money???)