Posted on 04/30/2021 3:50:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Anne Arundel County has filed a lawsuit against more than two dozen fossil fuel companies over the costs of dealing with the fallout of climate change.
“Filing this suit is about protecting our taxpayers and businesses from the growing fiscal impacts of climate change,” County Executive Steuart Pittman (D) said in a statement. “The damage inflicted by these companies damages our environment, and creates massive costs that shouldn’t be borne on the backs of our residents.”
The lawsuit seeks to help Anne Arundel County recover damages from companies whose “decades of deception” is harming land and infrastructure in the county, officials said. It cites the local effects of climate change, including the threats that sea level rise, flooding, and inundation pose to thousands of residents and homes across the county.
The county has about 530 miles of shoreline.
Anne Arundel County Attorney Gregory J. Swain said “the complaints are similar” to a lawsuit filed against fossil fuel companies by the City of Annapolis in February. The county is using the same law firm as the city, Swain added.
The lawsuit looks for compensatory and punitive damages, and includes public-nuisance and other claims. The suit names 26 plaintiffs, including industry giants BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, Citgo and the American Petroleum Institute.
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I think we will see more of this with punitive amounts higher. Maryland will find they were too soon in doing this. Like the cigarette companies. States won big but not the first lawsuits. I don’t think they should be sued but this is new america now.
Anne Arundel County is one of the wealthiest counties in the country.
So maybe these folks can give up their mansions and cars and built in pools and go live in a tree and hunt their own game.
As a kid growing up in the 60’s, all I heard was “The ice age is coming!!” “We are gonna die.”
Then it was “Acid rain is gonna destroy the planet.”
In the mid 80’s, we went back to the ice age argument. The U.N. announced the planet was gonna freeze over by the year 2000 unless we changed our ways.
Next we had Al Bore global warming and the planet would end around 2016.
Then the brilliant OAC had some stupid comments about the end of the world.
Since global climate change hasn’t been working they are now trying to control with this scamdemic.
We gotta fight.
They are using fear to control. It’s been a tool for thousands of years.
Way to waste the County taxpayer’s money.
As only Democrats can.
Now we enter the Era of drive-by envirowhacko shakedown lawsuits.
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