'The House Oversight Committee’s report suggests it may be time for plaintiffs and state attorneys general to put a cap on the well exploring a fraud theory against oil companies and move on to drill elsewhere,' JWVerret writes.
Ecology law environmental impact assessment and natural resources law and taking climate legal action and greenhouse gas reduction regulations with 3D illustration elements.n the final weeks of 2022, the House Oversight Committee, under the previous Democratic leadership, concluded a 14-month investigation into whether energy companies misled the public about the impacts of oil and gas on the global climate.
There are more than two dozen cases by state and local governments seeking to hold energy companies liable for the effects of climate change and alleging deception about the impact of carbon emissions on climate change. Contemporaneous government investigations often provide momentum and evidence to private litigation to aid plaintiffs, but in this case, it may do the opposite. Even therecounted how the House Oversight investigation fell flat.
A number of cases from coast to coast — including Honolulu and Santa Cruz to Minnesota and Rhode Island — have brought similar arguments alleging so-called deceptive marketing practices and advancing"misinformation" on the connection between energy production and climate change.
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