No I guess Ann is not worried.
Ann E. Carlson PROF-AY-LAW University of California, 2016 $490,982.00
I guess is I was making close to half a million a year I wouldn't be worried either.
It will be interesting to see what evidence is allowed in
In a California court I figure tjis won’t go well
The beaches look the same to me as they did 30 years ago.
Hope in one hand, Crap in the other, see which one fills up first.
Stick it to “the man,” and then complain that gas is getting too expensive. It’s the San Francisco way.
Broke CA has to follow the NY model and try to shake down the companies doing business there. Were I an oil or gas company, I’d shut off the pipelines to CA and be done with it.
If you can sue oil companies for selling you what you want can you sue food companies for making you fat?
What about cows farting all over the place.
Shouldn’t they be put to death and made in to delicious burgers?
They should also allow in the financial disclosure notices on bond offerings for these cities. From what I’ve read, the climate risks are minimized in the bond disclosures but maximized in the lawsuits. Sorry, cities, you can’t have it both ways.
Garbage lawsuit.
I’m pretty sure a judge and a lawyer(s) knows more about the petroleum industry than petroleum industry engineers. /S
The oil companies should withdraw their products from the California market until California says the their climate has recovered.
It is a good compromise and it will only take about a month, by my estimate.
Horsecrap. Just another money grab.
PS: Someone should argue separation of Church & State. These environmentalists view climate change, or whatever they call it, as a religion!
Let’s sue oxygen for rust
This is so stupid.
All oil companies should cease providing petroleum to CA.
Then step back and watch them squeal.
5.56mm
Tell all those off-shore oil workers to quit pissin in the ocean, the snowflakes in Kalifornia are upset.
Oil companies would probably be willing to pay for Ann Carlson and Peter C. Frumhoff and the San Francisco Chronicle management and staff to receive firehose enemas.
The seven cities in the lawsuit are strapped for money and the oil companies will just pass on any costs realized on to the consumer.
If we had real judges on the court this lawsuit would not get past the initial hearing.
In real courts the cities would have to show harm and real losses to proceed with the suit.
How can they possibly show financial losses due to sea level rise caused by oil companies? There is no evidence of measurable sea level rise and even if there was there is no evidence to show that global warming (if any) is caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
But we all know that we do not have real judges that demand real proof. We have activist judges that are there to promote social justice not real justice.
Even if you buy into their argument, when will these economic twits learn that companies don't pay for anything...consumers do. Unless they have found a way to remove all distillate fuels from their lives, and all of the other products that are derived from oil, from medicines to fabrics, all they will do is raise the prices of all these products. Yet, these are likely the same idiots who fought every new power plant that has been proposed in CA for the past 20 years. Yet, when rolling brownouts occurred during the past five years, they blamed the power companies and utility regulators for not supplying enough power.
Cake...eat...too.
Absolutely cut them off, or at least charge them a special “tax” to reimburse the oil companies, plus a little extra for the inconvenience.