With the expense of mitigating the effects of climate change becoming more onerous, more than two dozen cities, counties and states are suing more than 40 fossil fuel companies, accusing them of making false and misleading claims about climate change.
. And now, many cities and states are asking, who's going to pay for all of this?
So, the city is raising large parts of its existing sea wall, and the Army Corps of Engineers says Charleston should build another eight miles of wall. The city expects an estimated $3 billion in climate change-related costs. Charleston is one of more than two dozen cities, counties and states that are suing these companies .
One of a series of 1991 newspaper ads from the Information Council for the Environment, an energy industry group. Internal documents said the goal of their advertising campaign was to"Reposition global warming as theory ."William Tong, attorney general of Connecticut, said,"I'm suing ExxonMobil because they lied to us."
And the suit also cites a 1988 internal draft memo from an Exxon spokesperson advising the company"emphasize the uncertainty" of climate science. Tracy asked,"Some of these internal memos from the company acknowledge uncertainty about this. Does that strengthen the company's argument that this was not settled science?"
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