Chicago is suing the oil industry for its contribution to global warming.
A doubter would see this as a strapped city going for something rich to gain the money it needs to survive.
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Chicago’s financial difficulties were apparent even before it was a hub for unauthorized immigrants.
According to The Hill:
Chicago sues oil companies over the effects of climate change.
Chicago filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the main fossil fuel lobbying group, six large oil firms, and other parties, claiming they organized and sponsored a denial of climate change campaign that adversely impacts the city’s citizens.
The city filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute (API), BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66, Shell, and other companies, alleging that they had misled the public about the consequences of their goods and that they were complicit in Chicago’s climate change effects.
According to the complaint, these effects include summer temperatures that are dangerous, a rise in extreme weather, erosion of the coastline, and vulnerability to calamities like flash flooding in basements on the city’s West Side. The city claims that as a consequence, it has spent close to $200 million on climate mitigation and response initiatives in low-income areas.
The lawsuit also accuses the API specifically of forming front groups “to promote climate disinformation and advocacy from a purportedly objective source.” The charge is similar to what lobbyist Keith McCoy of Exxon Mobil said to an activist in 2021 while secretly recording “aggressively [fought] against some of the science” regarding climate. Exxon has stated that McCoy’s remarks do not reflect the opinions of the firm and has refused to take responsibility for them.
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