Posted on 08/01/2023 1:28:10 AM PDT by Libloather
A group of left-wing senators led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecute the fossil fuel industry over its alleged climate disinformation campaign.
In a letter Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Senate coalition - joined also by Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. - argued fossil fuel companies have conducted a "longstanding and carefully coordinated campaign" to mislead Americans about the risks posed by global warming and "discredit climate science" in pursuit of profits. If the DOJ were to pursue such a case again the fossil fuel industry, it would mark the first time the federal government got involved in climate nuisance litigation.
"The actions of ExxonMobil, Shell, and potentially other fossil fuel companies represent a clear violation of federal racketeering laws, truth in advertising laws, consumer protection laws, and potentially other laws, and the Department must act swiftly to hold them accountable for their unlawful actions," the four senators wrote to Garland on Monday.
"The fossil fuel industry has had scientific evidence about the dangers of climate change and the role that burning fossil fuels play in increasing global temperatures for more than 50 years," the lawmakers continued. "Despite these companies’ knowledge about climate change and the role their industry was playing in driving carbon emissions, they chose to participate in a decades-long, carefully coordinated campaign of misinformation to obfuscate climate science and convince the public that fossil fuels are not the primary driver of climate change."
According to the lawmakers, fossil fuel companies funded a multimillion-dollar "illegal misinformation" plan through the American Petroleum Institute (API), the industry's main national trade association, decades ago.
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Republicans take action to defund John Kerry’s climate office
Ted Cruz DROPS John Kerry on his lying, pointy little head for BATS**T claim about ice-free Arctic summer
https://menzmag.com/news/ted-cruz-drops-john-kerry/
Accuse the other side of what you are doing. Isn't that one of the Rules For Radicals?
Gingrich says Kerry’s China trip was ‘fool’s errand carried out by a fool’
Kerry ripped for demanding agriculture emission cuts: ‘Bankrupt every farmer in America’
Not until Hunter and Joe are both in jail
Kerry declares the Monroe Doctrine dead: “we are equals sharing responsibilities”
Will he take action against undersea volcanoes? Much more likely the cause of current hot weather due to the huge incense in water vapor in the atmosphere, particularly for last years huge eruption from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha-apai last year. Media absolutely silent on that.
I thought he was dead.
Since the sun is responsible for almost all global warming, perhaps the DoJ should sue the sun. If not for the sun, the average temperature of the Earth would be barely above absolute zero.
“the present generation cannot rightly judge the past generation until the future generation can judge the present generation” L.Star
I'm guessing "no".
Let them prove it (they can’t).
Loser pays court rules.
A courtroom invalidates our vote and puts a ton of unelected and wholly inimical creeps in charge of our country.
Bernie Sanders = Crazy old coot.
“Will he take action against undersea volcanoes?”
My thought exactly.
Geology tells us there were river beds in the Sahara, the Mediterranean Sea pretty much dried up, we had so much CO2 that ferns were as tall as trees, the Great Lakes were formed by glaciers, and Eur-Asia was connected to to North America. (i.e. the Native Americans didn’t swim here!)
A few years ago a pre-historic shark fossil was found in the Peruvian desert.
The earth’s climate has been all over the place even before man existed.
YA ...let’s keep pushing the LIES!
Stop using the term “fossil fuel”!
Why not prosecute scientist and engineers and pioneers in free thought coming up with the ideas that gave us everything we have today that may or may not have come from or use fuels.
Bernie should prosecute himself for during, flying, using electricity etc.
Buffoonery at best.
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