Maine Becomes Newest State to Sue Oil Companies Over Global Warming

Oil companies secretly believed in global warming this whole time.

I don’t believe in it, and most people do not believe in it, because there is no evidence and it’s retarded on its face. Plus there is actually serious proof that these warmers get together and lie.

But for some reason, the people working at the oil companies all believed in global warming and then said they didn’t.

The Hill:

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) this week announced a lawsuit against major oil companies and their top lobbying group, alleging they knowingly concealed the role of fossil fuels in climate change for decades.

Frey said Tuesday that defendants in the lawsuit include Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute (API). In a nearly 200-page complaint, the state alleges the companies contributed to Maine’s financial liability by concealing knowledge of the link as far back as the 1960s.

“For over half a century, these companies chose to fuel profits instead of following their science to prevent what are now likely irreversible, catastrophic climate effects,” Frey said in a statement. “In so doing, they burdened the State and our citizens with the consequences of their greed and deception.”


Aaron Frey

The state said it is seeking a jury trial and damages compensating the state for both future mitigation efforts and the costs of earlier impacts.

Maine is the ninth state to sue to hold oil companies responsible for the effects of climate change, none of which have gone to trial. A separate coalition of Republican attorneys general has called on the Supreme Court to bar lawsuits from five of those states, arguing they rely on powers the states do not have.

The Pine Tree State has seen a number of extreme weather events in recent years in particular, with Sen. Susan Collins (R) saying at a Senate hearing last week that recent storms “took out about 50 percent of our fishing infrastructure in our state.”

Why don’t they sue the companies putting PFAS and pesticides in the groundwater? No one even doubts that these things are both real and very dangerous, and those polluters face no consequences.

Maybe it’s because government people aren’t all invested in alternatives to PFAS and pesticides?

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