Oil firms sued warmth dome ‘flawed’ loss of life
An American woman is sueing seven oil and gas companies, she said More than 600 people were also killed in B.C.
It is one of the first wrong death claims in the US, seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry responsible for its role in the changing climate.
The trial filed in the Washington State Court says that companies knew that their products had changed the climate, including contribution to the summer wave of 2021 in Pacific Northwest, killing 65 -year -old Juliana Leone, and they failed to warns the people of such risks.
On June 28, 2021, an unusual summer wave ended in 42.2 C day – according to the filing, the hottest ever in the state. Leone had covered a distance of just 100 miles from the house for an appointment, and rolled his windows back on the way because his car’s air conditioning was not working.
According to the trial, Leon pulled and parked his car in a residential area. He was found unconscious behind the wheel when an audience called for help. Despite medical intervention, Leon died.
Facting names Exone Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, Conocophilips, Philips 66 and BP Assistant Olympic Pipeline Company.
A new report states that economically weaker people died in a odd number in British Columbia while punishing the 2021 heat dome event. Those who died had no air conditioning.
“Defendants knew that their fossil fuel products were already changing the Earth’s atmosphere,” when Juliana was born, Thursday’s filing said. “By 1968, the defendants understood that fossil fuel-dependent economy they were building and ending them, accelerating atmospheric changes, resulting in more frequent and destructive weather disasters and human life loss.”
The filing states: “The extreme heat killing Julie was directly associated with fossil fuel-powered changes of climate.”
Chevron lawyer accused woman of ‘exploiting a personal tragedy’
Savaron Corporation lawyer Theodore Botaras Junior said in a statement, “Exploitation of a personal tragedy to promote political climate torture litigation is contrary to law, science and general knowledge. The court should add claims to this far and wide, which have already been dismissed in the growing list of state and federal courts.”
Conocophillips, BP, Shell and BP subsidiary Olympic pipeline company refused to comment on arrival by Associated Press. Other companies did not respond to the recommendations of comments.
The trial accused of burning oil and gas and hindering the risks of climate change by humans who disrupt the risks, and incorrectly introduce and incorrectly introduce them.
International climate researchers said in a colleague-review analysis that 2021 “Heat Dome” “Human-causing was almost impossible without climate change.”
CBC meteorologist and science reporter Johana Wagstoff broke the combination of unprecedented heat -leading factors in western North America – and how climate change plays a role in these extreme events.
Scientists have widely attributed record-breaking, more frequent, long-lasting and rapid deadly heat waves to climate change around the world that they say that is a result of burning fossil fuels. Oil and gas are fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide such as planet-wise greenhouse gas emissions when burning.
“We have seen a really advanced scientific understanding about specific impacts that climate change can be in individual extreme weather events,” said Corey Silverman-Rothi, a senior companion at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law of Columbia Law School, a senior partner of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. “Scientists today are very confident in saying that but for climate change, this would not have happened.”
Silverman-Rothi said that the uniqueness of the case can clarify the consequences of climate change for people and the possible consequences of the company’s behavior.
The lawsuit was First reported by New York Times,
Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, said, “Big oil companies have known for decades that their products will cause horrific climate disasters, which will become more deadly and disastrous, if they do not change their business models,” said Richard Wilt, Chairman of the Center for Climate Integrity. “But instead of warning the public and taking steps to save life, the big oil lied and deliberately intensified the problem.”
How is it different from other climate cases
The state and cities have long gone to contribute to the warming of the planet after stakeholders of the fossil fuel industry. Recently, Hawaii and Michigan announced a plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for damage caused by climate change, although the states have got the US justice department’s counter cases.
What could be a historical case, the Montana State Court ruled in favor of 16 youths who filed a trial on the state, claiming that the use of fossil fuels violated its right to a clean and healthy environment.
Trump has been administration To disregard climate change, they have gone against the initiative with the aim of quickly and to combat it.The US was withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement. National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration – an agency that has estimated the weather forecasting and research workforce – will no longer track the cost of climate change weather disasters. And the Environmental Protection Agency has been called to re-write its long-standing conclusions, which endanger the planetary-warming greenhouse gases to put public health and well-being.
Meanwhile, the federal government has increased support for oil and gas production in the name of “American Energy Dominance” agenda, and withdraws other efforts and hosting projects to address climate change.
Worldwide, other climate cases are being closely seen closely as a probably unique example in an attempt to make major pollutants accountable. A German Court This week ruled against a Peru farmer Which claimed that an energy company’s greenhouse gas emissions promoted global warming and put their home at risk.
Nevertheless, a case that argues to these companies should be held responsible for a person’s death, rare. Misty Leone is demanding unarmed monetary damage.
“Given further, it is difficult to imagine that it will be a different event,” said Associate Professor Don Brahmin at George Washington University Law School. “We are facing a growing climate crisis. It is a great idea that this year, the hottest, almost certainly on the record, we will experience for the best future for the best future.
He said, “It is estimated or to use a legal word, the visionary-that the loss of life from these climate-fuel disasters will probably grow rapidly due to the rapid climate chaos,” he said. “All this argues in the heart of fossil fuel companies, and it remains on a large and growing body of evidence that these companies have understood the dangers of their products for decades.”
