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Chicago sues oil companies for impacts of climate change
The Hill ^ | 02/21/2024 | ZACK BUDRYK

Posted on 02/21/2024 6:48:13 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The city of Chicago on Tuesday sued six major oil companies and the primary fossil fuel lobbying group, alleging they funded and planned a campaign of climate change denial that directly affects the city’s residents.

In the lawsuit, the city accused BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute (API) of misleading the public about the impact of their products and of contributing to the effects of climate change on Chicago.

These impacts include unsafe summer temperatures, an increase in extreme weather, shoreline erosion and susceptibility to disasters such as flash flooding in basements on the city’s West Side, according to the lawsuit. As a result, the city says, climate mitigation and response projects in low-income communities have cost it nearly $200 million.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 1619project; blackkk; blackliesmanors; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; chicago; climatechange; criticalracetheory; crt; energy; illinois; lawfare; oil; reparations; sues; thehill; theshill; zackbudryk
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To: SunTzuWu
Stop selling petroleum products to Chicago.

Yep.

Blackball any retailer who sells gasoline or diesel in Crook County.

61 posted on 02/21/2024 8:47:32 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Okay, no fuel for C(r)ook County.
62 posted on 02/21/2024 8:47:57 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to he)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Corrupt ghetto money grab.


63 posted on 02/21/2024 8:50:02 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is Feb in Chicago. Just shut off all oil into the city for 36 hours. Shut it off.

Call it blue flu.


64 posted on 02/21/2024 9:00:16 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The same strategy worked on the cigarette companies. Government collected big fines. The left wants to bust out the oil companies.

I watched a very interesting documentary about cigs on one of the streaming services. It was about biologist hired by a cig company to find a way to make cigs less addictive. By accident the biologist found that by rearranging the ingredients in cigs, he made them 10 times more addictive. After reporting the results to a meeting of execs, they gave him a standing ovation.


65 posted on 02/21/2024 9:09:13 AM PST by DeplorablePaul (ll)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

there is no tyranny that ‘climate change’ will not justify


66 posted on 02/21/2024 9:32:10 AM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: SunTzuWu

Yep. Close down all the gas stations and shut off the natural gas.


67 posted on 02/21/2024 9:36:50 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: momincombatboots

Prove to a Chicago jury? No problem.


68 posted on 02/21/2024 10:22:39 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: momincombatboots

Prove to a Chicago jury? No problem.


69 posted on 02/21/2024 10:22:39 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I believe you are right. There are NO countervailing forces to arrest the growth of lawfare. The trend is clearly more and more of this extra-legal abuse.

Yup. We have resisted turning the country into a kleptocracy like India or most Middle Eastern countries to this point in our history. But without a strong sense of Christian charity and morality pushing back (and there isn't anymore), that's where we are headed at a rapid clip. Everything will become "pay to play."
70 posted on 02/21/2024 10:25:19 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gas companies should respond by refusing to see any gas in Chicago.


71 posted on 02/21/2024 10:29:10 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: Antoninus

“But without a strong sense of Christian charity and morality pushing back (and there isn’t anymore), that’s where we are headed at a rapid clip.”

Exactly right. That is the single BIGGEST difference from our founding through the 1950s or 1960s. The numbers of people who believe in God or are part of a church are rapidly dwindling. The church response to those dwindling congregations? Adopt more “liberation theology” i.e., hardcore marxism.

And the doom loop accelerates.


72 posted on 02/21/2024 10:33:26 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

HAHAHAHA.
“Don’t look at the invasion of illegal aliens and the empty coffers of the city. SQUIRREL!!! We’ll get those evil oil companies to fill the coffers and pay off the NGOs giving the illegal invaders free stuff.”

And the blacks who voted for the sanctuary status will clap and re-elect fauxhawk Johnson.


73 posted on 02/21/2024 11:10:18 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s next, sue people for using gasoline?


74 posted on 02/21/2024 1:45:38 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Reily
Correct you are.

Progressing the Constitution - One Man One Vote.

75 posted on 02/21/2024 2:58:31 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Reily
Reynolds was the state level equivalent to the 17th Amendment.

If Your State is a Mess.

In the name of social justice, Scotus has done enormous damage to these United States.

76 posted on 02/21/2024 3:05:42 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Absolutely agree!

Brilliant perceptive man Dirksen!


77 posted on 02/21/2024 3:25:37 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: Reily

Why don’t they sue everyone that uses fossil fuels like their citizens do?


78 posted on 02/21/2024 3:27:37 PM PST by Pol-92064
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To: ChicagoConservative27
As a result, the city says, climate mitigation and response projects in low-income communities have cost it nearly $200 million.

Not their fault if Chi Town chooses to waste money on an imaginary problem. I do hope all these companies suspend all deliveries of their products to Ill annoy.

79 posted on 02/21/2024 3:28:20 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: nuke_road_warrior

Now that would hurt.


80 posted on 02/21/2024 3:32:00 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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