N.J. lawsuit takes aim at 5 oil, gas companies for denying climate change exists

[livingston]

N.J. lawsuit takes aim at 5 oil, gas companies for denying climate change exists​

• Oct. 18, 2022,
• state officials announced a lawsuit against five major oil and gas companies on Tuesday afternoon.
  
  
  The 200-page civil suit says the companies, as well as a petroleum trade association, have knowingly lied to New Jerseyans about the existence and impact of climate change and the length at which the fossil fuels they have helped to burn worsen the planet.
• The companies, state officials said, have known since at least the 1950s that the burning of fossil fuels is a major driver of climate change which environmental experts say has made already catastrophic storms like Sandy more damaging.
• Tuesday’s lawsuit names Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, a trade group of which all the companies are members. Attorney General Matt Platkin, as well as officials with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Environmental Protection, said the lawsuit was filed on behalf of New Jersey residents.

N.J. lawsuit takes aim at 5 oil, gas companies for denying climate change exists

"We’ll ask the court to order the defendants to stop their lying and to pay for the costs from their conduct to New Jersey,” said Attorney General Matt Platkin.

www.nj.com

 

[repete]

The price of fuel isn't high enough, lets drive it up higher! I'd love to see those companies say FU and not ship any gas or diesel to NJ.

 

[FP1201]

If they can't make the claims of climate change stick all their aspirations for control under the Green New Deal are for naught.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Is this the new 'Alex Jones' method?

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

The oil companies should voluntarily withhold sale of their products from NJ to settle the lawsuit.

 

[FP1201]

Is this the new 'Alex Jones' method?

Jones has been right or at least many of the things he reported on have been exposed.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Jones has been right or at least many of the things he reported on have been exposed.

That's why he is being punished, but it sets everyone up for more lawsuits like this one.

Maybe the jury will award NJ a fuckton of social credits.

 

[Saltwater60]

So politicians can literally lie about everything and I mean everything but these people lose the right to speak out? I think climate change from fossil fuels is a lie to and I think it has way more to do with the increase in cities and urban sprawl.

 

[livingston]

So politicians can literally lie about everything and I mean everything but these people lose the right to speak out? I think climate change from fossil fuels is a lie to and I think it has way more to do with the increase in cities and urban sprawl.

You are correct. We learned a lesson.with Covid lies. ... Most everything they told us were a lie. It was never tested like it should have. Now people are dropping dead .. by the thousands ... The same thing deals with Climate change lies ....The rich folks will buy most all the land . This is why the need to destroy the livestock industry. Bankrupt these folks. Along with that is to destroy the coal , gas, and oil industry... ... You will impoverish whole areas of red states. . Kill republican donors. ... In a mere generation these folks will be on the government dole.
. Fertilizer when applied correctly is a miracle product . Now days it is often applied using a GPS system. An area of ground that produced heavy grain last year will get more fertilizer .. The area with poor soil less fertilizer. . Fields are mapped out with GPS .. When a crop is harvested one knows the bu/acre. as it is run through the combine. That information is used to determine just where fertilizer needs to be applied. for the next years crop.
Now they want farmers to cut fertilizer use by 1/3 to save the earth. .. Millions of people will starve because of this. .. All over the world.

 

[C3D]

There's been a bunch of these suits in recent years including New York and California and they have all failed miserably. I guess New Jersey wants to come late to that party and also get humiliated.

People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corporation - The Climate Litigation Database

Action alleging fraudulent scheme by Exxon Mobil Corporation to deceive investors about the company's management of risks posed by climate change regulation.

climatecasechart.com

 

[livingston]

"What We're Being Told About Green Energy Is Wrong" | Jordan Peterson​

 

[tirwin1]

One can only hope the courts throw this stupid suit out and make the state pay court costs.

 

[Grimscale]

The companies, state officials said, have known since at least the 1950s that the burning of fossil fuels is a major driver of climate change which environmental experts say has made already catastrophic storms like Sandy more damaging.

It would be interesting to see what evidence they have to indicate the companies knew something that didn't exist until 2000+.

It would also be interesting to finally have an official definition of "climate change" and a list of those characteristics that indicate it is changing. After all, 20 years after the companies supposedly "knew" about it the .gov was clamoring on about an imminent (within 10 years) global freeze. Then, barely 10 years later, were espousing loudly about "global warming".
only after these two vague and incorrect declaratory statements did they start using the term "climate change" in an effort to tie any statistical anomaly to the actions of the "fossil fuel" companies.

In other words... .gov, put up or shut up!

 

[GOPerfect]

I would love to see gas producers, Oil companies just say fuck it and stop shipping gas to these states.

 

[Acer-m14]

the climate here is going to change .. will be in the 70's in a few days .. someone better pass a law ..

 

[Bigfoot]

I'm glad that I was born long enough ago that I got to experience pre Clown World.

But to be fair, back then it was the next ice age was coming.

 

[Acer-m14]

But to be fair, back then it was the next ice age was coming.

and the 1991 ice storm came and were still on the planet today ..