As fossil fuel conglomerates continue to accrue staggering and politically formidable wealth, the costs of extreme weather events are falling on people who can little afford them, and who had little to do with causing them.
Faced with tribalism instead of leadership from Congress, climate victims — including states and municipalities experiencing financially ruinous floods and fires — are turning to the courts.
Plaintiffs seek to prove that fossil fuel executives knew about climate change, understood the causal link between their product and the environment, and deliberately concealed those harms from the government as well as the public.
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