As one climate lawsuit gets thrown out of court in New York, another one takes its place in Baltimore.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced the lawsuit Friday in joining about a dozen other cities and states in suing fossil fuel firms for their role in causing global warming.
"The East Coast’s 5th largest city today joined a growing number of communities that are trying to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for knowingly contributing to what one of the industry’s own experts described as the 'potentially catastrophic' consequences of climate change," the mayor's office said in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court of Baltimore, targets many of the energy firms that dot the landscape around Charm City. Most notably, Consol Energy's coal export terminal, the only one like it on the East Coast, that handles much of the U.S. coal industry's shipments abroad.
The lawsuit also targets oil giants BP, Marathon, Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Citgo, and many others.
The lawsuit was filed about 24 hours after a court in New York rejected a similar lawsuit in New York filed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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12 comments:
Abuse of the justice system
Thay's OK. The lights have slowly been going out in Baltimore for years.
This is , well would be, hilarious if it didn't entail wasting taxpayer money to make such an unsubstantiated claim. Just think how much of your own money you would have to spend taking on Big Oil with the goal being their demise when you have absolutely no proven facts to go on.
The wet road did not cause the rainstorm any more than using oil based fuels caused anything to change our climate.
This from the same economic geniuses who gave Freddie Gray's "family" over $6M!
The Lawyers are getting richer... No matter who loses, they get paid an obscene fee...
Ban the continued presence of gas stations with the city limits of Baltimore.
ok, just continue WASTING our money...
Most of Harm City's air pollution is now caused by gunpowder dissipating from thug shootouts. The stupid mayor should solve that problem first.
With the Highest Murder Rate in decade, Baltimore's Mayor Catherine "Stolen Credit Cards" Pugh decided to spent Taxpayers Funds on dumb lawsuits. Of course! What else would you expect from Croocked Democ-rat, with criminal history?
She is just as unintelligent as her predecessor Stephanie Rawlings Blake. Sad that we have to let idiots like this run once great cities like Baltimore because the intelligent White folks moved to the suburbs and left the hoodrats behind to take control.
Anonymous said...
This from the same economic geniuses who gave Freddie Gray's "family" over $6M!
July 23, 2018 at 9:13 AM
Amen. The real intelligent people need to either move back into the City and become the majority or quit working visiting in the city, quit visiting the city and quit spending money in the city. Sell your properties to the thugs that are still living there and see how long that city survives.
The best thing the State of Maryland can do is buy Watts Island in the middle of the bay and round up all the ghetto thugs in Baltimore and dump them there. Bulldoze the ghetto and rebuild.
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