Climate Litigation Proponents Take Aim at Utilities. Don’t They Have Enough Losses on Their Hands?

Multnomah County’s experimental climate lawsuit keeps getting weirder. After years of pressure from climate activists to add gas utilities to the list of industries targeted by lawfare, the Oregon County finally granted their wish by adding a local utility company to its complaint, which already features over a dozen defendants.

It’s a déjà vu moment on several counts – after all, #UtilitiesKnew is kind of a “been there, done that” concept in the climate litigation space. Years before the campaign began targeting oil and gas companies with climate lawsuits over their production of fossil fuels, utilities were targeted for their greenhouse gas emissions.

Read the full story at EIDClimate.org.

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