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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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1 posted on 04/09/2024 6:20:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

America, the banana republic clown show.


2 posted on 04/09/2024 6:21:19 AM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the Petroleum Producing companies don’t CUT OFF ALL SALES AND DELIVERIES to this rogue State TODAY, they deserve what’s coming then.


3 posted on 04/09/2024 6:22:19 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This latest crap is right up there with “thought crimes” BS.


4 posted on 04/09/2024 6:22:36 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We need every strategy, we need every tactic, and criminal prosecutions could potentially make major contributions.”

The companies being attacked with this lawfare could reduce costs by hiring outlaw biker gangs to "sort out" these Lefty creeps, instead of bothering with lawyers.

5 posted on 04/09/2024 6:24:54 AM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

not one of these lawyers can go through the day without utilizing fossil fuels or some derivative therof...so shouldn’t they be charged as accessories to murder?


6 posted on 04/09/2024 6:26:33 AM PDT by wny
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To: eyeamok

We need to create a no fuel list and enforce it.


7 posted on 04/09/2024 6:27:24 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The legal business is infested with psychopaths. Because easy money and exercise of power is what psychopaths enjoy.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 6:28:49 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Old Billy was right.


9 posted on 04/09/2024 6:29:04 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: kiryandil

I’m reminded of the movie “Fargo” where a mild car salesman hires a couple of thugs to kidnap his wife so he can get money from her father. Before they even get there, the bodies pile up. It ends badly for the innocent people involved. It’s an accurate portrayal of what happens when you get involved with the kind of people who do the things you’re suggesting.

The reason organized crime is “allowed” is they generally only mess with people who seek out their services. They almost never interact with soccer moms or regular people. They don’t, for example, hassle cops, prosecutors or even private lawyers. In exchange, they get to ply their trade amongst the people who borrow their money, buy their drugs, or hire their prostitutes.

There’s a can of worms you don’t want to open.


10 posted on 04/09/2024 6:33:00 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a replay of the cigarette company play. Get a court to find an oil company liable. Get a huge settlement. Gas won’t go away. It will be a lot more expensive.


11 posted on 04/09/2024 6:33:18 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food.

The end of food is mass homicide.


12 posted on 04/09/2024 6:35:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Gen.Blather
You're acting like these lawyers are humans.

In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed Communists".

13 posted on 04/09/2024 6:36:54 AM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Holy projection, Batman.


14 posted on 04/09/2024 6:38:20 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Gen.Blather
The FX series Fargo is very good. It's about bloody crimes in the upper middle west. Love the accent. Last season was woke with a rogue sheriff but Juno Temple made up for everything.


15 posted on 04/09/2024 6:39:30 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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It’s open face insanity.
The nightmare where arkham asylum occupys the levers of government.


16 posted on 04/09/2024 6:39:53 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“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

Wow. Complete insanity. The people who are responsible for the most prosperous period in the history of the world, are criminals for doings so... because...

A fraudulent theory about false damage based on computer models...

17 posted on 04/09/2024 6:41:36 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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 cancer of ambulance chasing lawyers is helping to destroy America. I wonder what these parasites would do if the oil companies quit shipping gas to their state.


18 posted on 04/09/2024 6:53:40 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How do they intend to sue nature for all the deaths it causes climate-related deaths.

Earthquakes and tornados don’t run on oil.


19 posted on 04/09/2024 7:11:42 AM PDT by Vaduz
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But of course they don’t hold themselves accountable for the masses of animal deaths caused by windmills, and forced brown outs because of electric demand being too high, and ...


20 posted on 04/09/2024 7:14:43 AM PDT by Bob434
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