Posted on 06/15/2024 1:28:25 PM PDT by Twotone
The Supreme Court seemed to signal interest this week in taking up a challenge launched by Hawaii against big oil companies to hold them liable for climate change, and some Democrats are suggesting the high court is "captured" for the fossil fuel industry.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Justice Department to weigh in on a petition to hear a lawsuit brought by the City of Honolulu against major fuel companies including Sunoco, Exxon and Chevron, claiming the companies’ products cause greenhouse gas emissions and global warming without warning consumers about the risks.
The city employed a series of state laws like public nuisance and trespass measures and said the companies should pay billions to the state to abate the effects of climate change like weather events, sea level rise, heat waves, flooding and global warming generally.
The high court gave DOJ no deadline for the solicitor general’s input, but its request indicates a high likelihood the court wants to hear the case.
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Did the companies warn consumers about all the benefits? Such as longer lifespans, better standard of living, fewer cold-related deaths, and more productive agriculture?
Let's have a full accounting of risks as well as benefits, and have the prosecutors or defendants pay the other the difference.
SHOW ME THE WARNINGS ON FENTYNAL.
i agree
but i would say create imaginary problems
Better yet, everyone should.
If there was a market for whale meat and/or whale milk, there would be a supply of whales to provide whale oil and an inventive to domesticate the whales and raise them for crop. I wonder if whale farts pollute the ocean, or if they blow off steam from the other end to blow off now.
Or plug up those volcanoes.
What was the impact on climate due to incompetently allowing most of Maui to burn to the ground?
It’s the buyer that’s guilty of the crimes their alleging.
One justice said “the Aloha Spirit inspires constitutional interpretation.”
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Aloha-Alito
Has a soothing Hawaiian ring to it, doesn’t it.
On the whole, Hawaiians occupy the far left of the Bell Curve.
> whale farts pollute the ocean, or if they blow off steam from the other end to blow off now.
Not only that but whales exhale CO2 and also consume O2 thus indirectly increasing CO2 %.
Of course, we should also build HSR in Hawaii to reduce auto/helicopter/airplane pollution.
Never let a dead body go to waste.
Here’s the problem....first they can’t prove it...second...what would be the peoples alternative.
It should be interesting when the court asks for proof… Real solid, proof. The greenies and climate cultists can’t do it
The climate change crisis is the worst bout of mass insanity since the witchcraft trials, and perhaps the worst ever.
There’s no such a thing as a fossil fuel
The climate change crisis is the worst bout of mass insanity
You may have won but the following are interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_panic_cases
Thanks for the link. After perusing it, I rest my case.
Tulip mania was dramatic, but localized, and not that harmful.
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