Posted on 07/11/2025 12:37:56 PM PDT by simpson96
In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, big oil companies – including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell – are facing a climate change wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a Seattle woman.
Critics say the lawsuit is frivolous and part of a public relations campaign being waged against the industry nationwide.
The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court on May 28, alleges the oil companies knowingly fueled climate change and misled the public about the risks and consequences that the suit claims contributed to the record-high temperatures that blanketed western Washington in the final week of June 2021.
Julie Leon died of hyperthermia on June 28, 2021, Seattle’s hottest day on record, when temperatures soared to 108 degrees.
“On that day, Julie was overcome by heat while driving through Seattle with her windows rolled down. She managed to safely pull off the highway and onto a residential street before losing consciousness. Roughly two hours later, a good Samaritan discovered her, unresponsive and hot to the touch. First responders administered over a dozen rounds of CPR and other lifesaving measures but could not revive her,” the legal filing reads.
The lawsuit contends the extreme heat that killed Leon was linked to fossil fuel-driven alteration of the climate.
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Climate Change turned me into a Newt! (I got better)
Any judge that doesn’t throw this lawsuit needs to be retired. Preferably without a pension.
RIP to the deceased, but this isn’t exactly the first time someone has died this way.
I don’t know how they expect to prove their case. If climate change caused the record temperatures, wouldn’t those temperatures occur more often, becoming a more usual pattern and in more places? I remember summers fifty years ago that were hotter than anything we have had recently, and no one had heard of climate change back then.
Here’s a solution. Cut off all oil and gas deliveries to the county/city in which the lawsuit was filed.
the oil companies knowingly fueled climate change and misled the public about the risks and consequences
Can we say it is a little bit of a reach
If they lose this they should refuse to sell their products there.
I’m going to suggest an autopsy will reveal a different cause of death. She was hot to touch because she died and sat in the sun and assumed “room temperature.”
Dehydration and heat stroke caused her death. Was she so stupid as to not drink enough fluids. This was a death caused by her ignorance/stupidity.
How many other people died from heat stroke on that?
She didn’t have AC?
Just how old was her car?
And why even go out in that kind of weather?
Counter-sue the family if they ever drove a gas or diesel vehicle as contributing to the problem.
“Fossil” fuel definitely caused the death of Aaron Bushnell.
Ahole lawyers going for a Hail Mary payoff ala tobacco settlements..
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