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‘Climate homicide’ architects pitch theory to prosecutors
E & E News ^ | April 9, 2024 | By Lesley Clark

Posted on 04/09/2024 6:20:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Lawyers advancing an effort to charge oil companies with homicide over climate-related deaths are ramping up their campaign to hold fossil fuel producers criminally accountable for contributing to climate change.

The authors of “Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil for Climate Death” embarked on a road trip of college campuses this spring, making the case for bringingcriminal charges against oil and gas companies.

The push by David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s climate program, and Donald Braman, an associate professor at George Washington University Law School, aims to bolster support for the theory through presentations at law schools. Their events have attracted law students, legal professors and local climate activists.

Local district attorneys are also starting to pay attention.

In a classroom at Harvard last month, Arkush and Aaron Regunberg, a senior climate policy counsel at Public Citizen, told an audience that their initial climate homicide theory is expanding to include other crimes, such as reckless endangerment.

“We believe that by knowingly generating the climate crisis and fraudulently covering it up, fossil fuel companies have committed some crimes,” Regunberg said. “We think it’s important that we are exploring and pursuing every tool that could help drive us to climate solutions.”

Arkush noted prosecutors have power that civil litigators do not and may be able to negotiate concessions and agreements beyond what a civil lawsuit could accomplish.

Criminal charges are not meant as a substitute for civil litigation against the oil industry, Arkush said, but they are a yet-unexplored avenue for holding companies accountable for their impact on humans and the environment.

“I work on climate, day in, day out, and we need all hands on deck,” Arkush said at a recent event. “We need every strategy, we need every tactic, and criminal prosecutions could potentially make major contributions.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: aaronregunberg; davidarkush; donaldbraman; ecofascism; enemieslist; enemiesofhumanity; globalwarming; hoax; marxism; propaganda; prosecutethemback; psychologicalwarfare; publiccitizen; warcrimes; waronhumanity
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Th3 scum on the left are very close to charging gun makers with crimes if their gun is used by a criminal, and now they are very close to charging, falsely, oil extractors with murder.

Our enemies are not out in some foreign nation that hates us, the worst enemies our nation has are liberals who are hell bent on toppling our nation from within! The left are driven by demons to destroy this great nation that God allowed to come to power all these years now-


21 posted on 04/09/2024 7:19:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Gen.Blather

“There be dragons down there” I beleive one of the killers said to the cop who was about to arrest him.

Pretty good movie.


22 posted on 04/09/2024 7:21:04 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: DeplorablePaul

At which point, a one world gov will offer “all the gas you need... if you will just take the mark and worship the beast”

Many will flock to get the mark in their desperation for fuel for their vehicles and fuel to keep warm with during the winter months.


23 posted on 04/09/2024 7:22:56 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are quite clearly insane.

L


24 posted on 04/09/2024 7:27:42 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: marktwain

[[“We believe that by knowingly generating the climate crisis and fraudulently covering it up, fossil fuel companies have committed some crimes,”]]

Gaslighting 101. The truth ios that we the people who onow the facts, know that the left are making up facts to perpetuate a massive hoax on the world with which to charge the world massive amounts of $$! They are taking food out of,the mouths of children and the elderly, and needlessly causing massive financial burdens on compa is for no good reason whatsoever!

They are the ones committing crimes against the world, and they are abusing gheir powers by claiming that a problem exists where no problem exists, and demanding that people pay to stop the problem that doesn’t exist in real life.

“Man-caused climate change” is part of the great delusion in the end times in my opinion- the left don’t even need to prove it, they just have to claim it, and arrest, fine, tax, and mandate compliance to the lie


25 posted on 04/09/2024 7:29:09 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When is it going to be ok to put people like this through a hole in the ice?

We can’t just laugh at them any more... Idiots like this actually WIN some of the court cases because of activist judges that are just as bad as they are...


26 posted on 04/09/2024 7:30:36 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the major oils should simply pull out of any state that actually attempts this ... they can START by letting all the filling station pumps go dry ...


27 posted on 04/09/2024 7:44:41 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just when you thought the left couldn’t get any more stupid.


28 posted on 04/09/2024 7:47:19 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Man made climate change is a lie.

But if you want to go after an industry that causes harm I say we should hold lawyers accountable when they get a guilty party off and they go on to commit more crimes up to including murder.

How say you lawyers, after all, fair if fair.


29 posted on 04/09/2024 7:58:32 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As a member in good standing, the American Institute of Architects
should sue the writers of this headline.


30 posted on 04/09/2024 8:54:02 AM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is amazing. Now the Climate Cult will have to prove their lies in court.


31 posted on 04/09/2024 12:43:01 PM PDT by spacewarp (Want freedom? Reject Dems.)
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