So, when does the island of Puerto Rico give up their own use of fossil fuels? How will manufacturing sector do without them, considering it is 43% of the GDP? What about the $8.9 billion in tourism dollars? Will they be able to import TVs, computers, phones, etc, on sailing ships?
In a major victory for climate accountability, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that the landmark lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico’s municipalities against the fossil fuel industry will proceed, sustaining claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and antitrust laws. This decision marks a monumental leap forward in climate litigation, placing some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies on track to face trial for their role in deliberately misleading the public about climate change while suppressing clean energy alternatives.
The lawsuit, led by Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, on behalf of 37 Puerto Rican municipalities, alleges that ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and other major oil producers engaged in a coordinated, decades-long deception campaign to conceal the true dangers of fossil fuel consumption. Through dark money funding and industry-backed disinformation campaigns, these corporations manipulated public perception, influenced policy, and delayed the transition to clean energy—despite possessing particularized knowledge of climate change’s catastrophic effects.
Once again, I recommend that these fossil fuels companies cut off all supply to the involved municipalities. They won’t, but, come on, if someone is suing you you wouldn’t provide them service, right?
Puerto Rico has long been on the frontlines of the climate crisis, suffering unprecedented destruction from extreme hurricanes and rising sea levels. The municipalities bringing this lawsuit have been left to rebuild communities devastated by climate change-fueled disasters, a direct result of the fossil fuel industry’s fraudulent suppression of climate science and obstruction of renewable energy development.
You know what the tide gauge shows for San Juan, Puerto Rico? “The relative sea level trend is 2.11 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
interval of +/- 0.33 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1962 to 2024 which is equivalent to a change of 0.69 feet in 100 years.” Which is exactly average for the Holocene, but should be much more for a warm period, based on averages between warm and cool periods. Hurricanes happen. PR is rather in that zone.
a direct result of the fossil fuel industry’s fraudulent suppression of climate science and obstruction of renewable energy development.
Seriously. A 190 countries around the world all working on the effects of Global warming and because the Fossil Fuel industry will not admit to something they are guilty of that anyway?
Somehow we are to believe that with every scientist in the world pointing greasy fingers at the Fossil fuel industry of the WEST. NONE at Russia or Iran or IRAQ or CHINA.
You are fucking yourselves WEST by allowing LAWFARE……..the LITIGATION branch of the extreme communist left……to continue unabated on fossil fuels.
Because once you win. Then what? A billion windmills and 10 billion solar panels will do nothing for your quality of life. What is the power going to bring you? China made cell phones. China made clothing. China made NIKES. China-made bicycles. China made Every fuking thing because the WEST will be unable to even EAT, let alone build anything.
You incompetent morons. It is nothing but a money grab that should get any judge fired and run out of town for allowing the most despicable attempt at ending the actual quality of life for mankind to proceed.
China, Russia, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, etc….will just tell the world to go Fuck themselves and trade with each other until the STUPID, DUMB ASSED WEST comes groveling to them on their knees, begging for handouts because their SOLAR-PANELS can’t make CORN GROW or WHEAT.
I am glad I am old. The world I am leaving my kids is the most dystopian lunacy that even God could not have imagined his children would have gone this whacko and decided world wide suicide was a great option.
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The basis of RICO is that a crime is being committed. Colluding to conduct lawful commerce cannot possibly be called a racket. But if courts decide that the marketing of fuels is a crime, then the fuels companies must cease doing that. I suspect that the only crime the plaintiffs are alleging is that the fuel companies are not fully admitting to harming the Climate, which at best is an opinion, not a corrupt practice. But it worked for the tobacco companies and those lawyers live like kings now. All they need is to find ONE democrat on a board of directors who sent one email admitting to causing climate harm, then the courts can say, “AHA! You KNEW you were harming the climate”, even though there is no evidence that they actually were. And since under the Biden administration it was an SEC directive for companies to make such admissions, even without any evidence or contrary to evidence, there is some nice paydays in the future of some climate activist groups.
The problem with comparison to the tobacco industry is that the tobacco folks adjusted the process of curing the tobacco leaf in order to make it more addictive.
“Cut Faster” – Kevin O’Leary: DOGE isn’t “whacking enough” with cuts: CNN Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/02/cut-faster-kevin-oleary-doge-isnt.html
That foreigner O’Leary needs to mind his own business.