Sometimes the lawfare works, sometimes it doesn’t. But, the judges still never ask “if you think fossil fuels are so bad why are you using them?”
‘Cannot Have It Both Ways’: Judge Delivers Fatal Blow To New York City’s Lawsuit Against Energy Comp
A judge dismissed New York City’s lawsuit seeking to make energy companies pay for climate change on Tuesday.
New York Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel tossed the lawsuit, writing in her ruling that the city could not simultaneously argue that New Yorkers were aware of the relationship between fossil fuels and climate change while being allegedly misled by oil companies about their role in climate change, according to Reuters. New York City’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell was one of many similar suits filed in Democrat-controlled jurisdictions seeking massive compensation from energy corporations for their supposed role in driving climate change.
“The city cannot have it both ways,” Patel wrote in the ruling, according to Reuters. She added that she did not find any evidence that the companies or the American Petroleum Institute engaged in a deliberate “greenwashing” effort to mislead consumers.
For a city that Cares about global boiling NYC sure does use a lot of fossil fuels. Fire trucks, police cars, ambulances, SUVs for the mayor and city council members, all the ships coming and going bringing goods and commuters, two international airports, and more. NYC couldn’t operate without fossil fuels.
“Our complaint alleged that these defendants spent millions to mislead consumers to think that they, and their products, contribute to a clean energy future,” the spokesman told Reuters. “Our complaint alleged that these defendants spent millions to mislead consumers to think that they, and their products, contribute to a clean energy future.”
So they talked up trying to be green. So what? Get over it.
ARCTIC Summer Ice Hasn’t Declined in a Decade, Climate Scientists Covered It Up. The press and the global warming crowd deliberately suppress the fact that ANTARCTICA has had record cold, snow and ice accumulation for decades. Even the last few years, ANTARCTICA , snow and ice have hit record numbers.
The number of catastrophic hurricanes and tornadoes has dwindled the last couple of decades.
The so-called doomed Great Barrier Reef is thriving and growing.
The oceans have not risen appreciably other than the normal waxing and waning of ice melt and evaporation cycles
Democrats, in public office, in the media and in Academia, have been lying to us about everything for a very long time. “Climate” is just one item on a very long list. Now they look at us and whine, “Why don’t you trust us”?
When they start finding problems whose solution does not involve massive transfers of wealth from taxpayers to government insiders, I might listen.
If the environmentalists think fossil fuel is bad now, wait ’til they can’t get it.