The fossil fuels companies should refuse to sell to the State of Delaware. It still boggles my mind that the lawyers never offer an arguement of “if fossil fuels are so bad, why is the state/company/city/group/county/individual using them?”
State court delivers major setback to Delaware in climate change lawsuit against Big Oil
A top state court in Delaware partially dismissed a lawsuit the state’s government filed against several of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies over their greenhouse gas emissions and impact on global warming.
Judge Mary Johnston, of the Delaware Superior Court, ruled that the state’s claims seeking damages from Big Oil defendants for alleged injuries stemming from out-of-state or global greenhouse gas emissions and interstate pollution are preempted by the federal Clean Air Act and are, therefore, beyond the limits of state statute. While other claims can be pursued, the ruling Tuesday significantly diminishes the case’s weight.
“We are pleased with the Delaware Superior Court’s decision holding that the ‘claims in this case seeking damages for injuries resulting from out-of-state or global greenhouse emissions and interstate pollution, are pre-empted by the’ Clean Air Act and ‘beyond the limits of Delaware common law,'” Theodore Boutrous, Jr., a lawyer for Chevron, one of the defendants, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“The global challenge of climate change requires a coordinated international policy response, not a series of baseless state and local lawsuits,” he added.
Companies like Chevron aren’t really helping their case when they recommend federal and international actions. They should say “if you don’t like them do not use them.”
In addition to the court’s findings that out-of-state emissions were beyond its scope, it further dismissed the state’s claims that oil industry defendants — which include Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, the American Petroleum Institute and dozens of other energy companies — have misrepresented the dangers of their fossil fuel products, including through tactics such as “greenwashing.”
And you know the people who are filing the suits are using plenty of fossil fuels themselves.
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