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Fossil Investors Beware: Here Come the Lawyers
This week’s news story on Western Canadian and U.S. wildfires may not have looked like a real and present threat to the investments and social licence that keep the oil and gas industry operating, extracting, and polluting.
But when the history of this time is written—when we look back at how we managed the series of wins that finally got climate change under control—the ability to pinpoint the polluter responsible for a specific measure of climate harm will surely stand as a milestone.
The CBC report cited a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters that came up with a remarkably precise measure of the fossil industry’s accountability for climate chaos: it traced 37% of burned forest area in Western Canada and the United States between 1986 and 2021 back to 88 major fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers.
The study was “the first to quantify how corporate emissions have made wildfires worse,” Grist wrote a week earlier. “Experts say the new research could help advance growing efforts to take polluters to court.”
Find out where this is all leading...click here for the whole story.
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- Drought Fuels Wildfire Concerns as Canada Braces for Another Intense Summer
- Critics Scorch Science-Based Targets Initiative for Allowing Carbon Offsets for Scope 3 Emissions
- ‘Turning Point in Energy History’ as Solar, Wind Start Pushing Fossil Fuels Off the Grid
- Lobbyists Win, UN Spins as Plastics Talks Reach ‘Weak Compromise’
- Drought Fuels Wildfire Concerns as Canada Braces for Another Intense Summer
- Critics Scorch Science-Based Targets Initiative for Allowing Carbon Offsets for Scope 3 Emissions
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