Posted on 06/23/2023 1:40:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s most populous county is suing more than a dozen large fossil fuel companies to recover costs related to extreme weather events linked to climate change.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges the combined carbon pollution the companies emitted was a substantial factor in causing and exacerbating a 2021 heat dome that killed 69 people, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Multnomah County is home to Portland and known nationally for mild weather and rain.
The companies named in the lawsuit include Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, among others.
Multnomah County is also asking for $1.5 billion in damages to pay for costs associated with future extreme heat events and an additional $50 billion to study, plan, and “weatherproof” against extreme heat. Some of the measures would include expanding health care and emergency services, adding insulation and HVAC systems to buildings, tearing out asphalt and planting more trees, Multnomah County chair Jessica Vega Pederson said.
“At the core, this lawsuit is about fairness and accountability for these giant oil companies who have record profits, who have known about the damage that their products do to our environment and who have been using pseudoscience, disinformation and outright lies for decades,” Pederson said.
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More climate BS
LOL, morons
When the giant meteor comes Oregon would be a good place for it to land.
-PJ
If carbon based corporations could singularly put a heat dome just over Multnomah County, don’t you think they would have the scientific wherewithall to clean up said “dome” ?
Dolts.
Why don’t they go after Chinese assets?
Can they sue themselves?
All of these companies should immediately end their services to Oregon state government and all of its subordinate jurisdictions. Or close up shop in Oregon altogether.
Can we sue Africa. As all hurricanes originate over Africa
Multnomah county may be the most corrupt county in the nation. They have been stealing votes for 40 years.
Sounds like a good way to freeze your ass off next winter.
Imma gonna go over and demand $1,000.
Seems like an easy win in court, just cite the BS studies that show gas from cows causes Globull Warming.
They used the fossil fuels. The turd rollers need to be suing themselves. Idiots. They are still using fossil fuels. They have no “standing”.
Somewhere I still have that bumper sticker - “Ban Mining. Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark”.
(Drilling for oil is a form of mining.)
Liberal Oregon, ‘nuff said.
The temp in TX is 3 digits every summer. Always has been, always will be. I sweated when I went outside so who do I sue?
“Idiots. They are still using fossil fuels.”
There was a local sports guy wondering if he could in good conscience watch the new golf tournaments of that Saudi league knowing their terrible civil rights values.
I bet he loves using their oil though.
As absurd as it is, the climate cult will probably win.
Thank you Lord, for giving my wife and I, the intel, not to retire/move to Oregone 2+ decades ago.
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