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June 26, 2018

Judge Dismisses Cities' Effort to Force Fossil Fuel Companies to Pay for Climate Change
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In more climate change news, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit in
which the cities of Oakland and San Francisco were suing fossil fuel
companies for the costs of dealing with climate change. The cities had
sued to force companies, including BP, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Exxon
Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell, to pay for the cost of projects like
protecting coastlines from flooding due to sea-level rise. But Judge
William Alsup ruled, "The problem deserves a solution on a more vast
scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public
nuisance case."


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