8th Circuit Rules Minnesota Suit Against Exxon, API, & Koch Industries Can Be Heard In State Court
It is no coincidence that his father, Fred Koch, was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society. Fredafter graduating from MIT, but was sued by the major oil companies of the day. Unable to use his process in the US because of ongoing patent infringement litigation, he took his technology to Russia, where he built refineries for Josef Stalin. Later he did the same for Adolf Hitler. The respect for dictators runs deep in the Koch family.
If the general public was privy to that knowledge, the pressure to find alternatives to burning fossil fuels would have been much greater. Had we started in the 1990s when James Hansen first testified before Congress about global warming, the price of mitigation would have been modest. By covering up the truth, these companies have put the world in a position where it needs to spend ungodly amounts of money just to keep the human race from extinction.
None of these so-called climate suits has gone to trial yet and it may be many years before they do. In the meantime, these companies are planning to add billions more tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and further endangering every living soul because there is no place for ethics in business and they can continue doing what they have always done until someone makes them stop.
The odds are it won’t happen in time, as these climate suits grind their way forward with glacial slowness. By the time they reach a conclusion, there may be no remedy for the harm the industry has done by throwing a blanket of secrecy over what it knew for over 50 years. There is some question in legal circles whether any court can fashion a remedy for the harm the fossil fuel industry has done not only to Minnesota, but also to our entire planet.I don't like paywalls.
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