{"id":55015,"date":"2020-09-13T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55015"},"modified":"2020-09-13T10:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T15:29:28","slug":"delaware-just-sued-30-fossil-fuel-companies-and-the-american-petroleum-institute-over-climate-denial-and-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55015","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate ‘Denial and Disinformation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate ‘Denial and Disinformation’<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Delaware, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden,\u00a0announced on Thursday<\/a>, September 10 that it is taking dozens of major oil and gas companies including\u00a0BP<\/span>, Chevron, and ExxonMobil to court over the rising costs of climate impacts such as sea level rise and coastal\u00a0flooding.<\/p>\n

Like other\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0states and municipalities suing the fossil fuel industry, Delaware says that the industry knew half a century ago about the likely climate impacts resulting from the use of its products, but instead of warning the public or changing their business model, the fossil fuel companies engaged in campaigns to attack climate science and downplay the risks of burning coal, oil, and gas in order to stave off policy\u00a0responses.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Delawareans are already paying for the malfeasance of the world\u2019s biggest fossil fuel companies,\u201d Attorney General Kathy Jennings said in a\u00a0press release<\/a>. \u201cExxon, Chevron, and other mega-corporations knew exactly what kind of sacrifices the world would make to support their profits, and they deceived the public for decades. Now we are staring down a crisis at our shores, and taxpayers are once again footing the bill for damage to our roads, our beaches, our environment, and our economy. We are seeking accountability from some of the world\u2019s most powerful businesses to pay for the mess they\u2019ve\u00a0made.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>, filed September 10 in Delaware Superior Court, a state court, seeks monetary damages to help pay for costs the state is already incurring and that are expected to mount as climate impacts\u00a0worsen.<\/p>\n

As noted in Delaware\u2019s\u00a0complaint<\/a>, the state has the lowest average elevation of any state in the country and more than 22,000 residents are currently threatened by coastal flooding.<\/p>\n

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Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate ‘Denial and Disinformation’ Delaware, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden,\u00a0announced on Thursday, September 10 that it is taking dozens of major oil and gas companies including\u00a0BP, Chevron, and ExxonMobil to court over the rising costs of climate impacts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3106,3105,1517,29957,30299,5317,3717,327,1729,705],"class_list":["post-55015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-american-petroleum-institute","tag-api","tag-climate-denial","tag-dana-drugmand","tag-delaware","tag-desmog-blog","tag-disinformation","tag-fossil-fuel-industry","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55016,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015\/revisions\/55016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}