Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are urging the DOJ to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for breaking a wide variety of laws in perpetuating climate denial for years.
“Despite these companies’ knowledge about climate change and the role their industry was playing in driving carbon emissions, they chose to participate in a decades-long, carefully coordinated campaign of misinformation to obfuscate climate science and convince the public that fossil fuels are not the primary driver of climate change,” the senators wrote.
“Thanks to the illegal lies of the fossil fuel industry, climate change is wreaking catastrophic damage upon the United States. Floods, droughts, extreme weather disturbances, and wildfires are causing unprecedented damage,” they continued.will amount to hundreds of trillions of dollars over the next decades — fall on the industry that caused it, the lawmakers said.
“These costs, and the costs of repairing our environment and transitioning away from fossil fuels, must not fall on American taxpayers. Instead, they must be borne by the parties responsible for driving climate change and lying about the negative impacts of their products,” the lawmakers wrote. “The polluters must pay.”
The lawmakers’ call comes amid a summer marked by blaring warnings that the climate crisis is here, and will only get worse if those with power continue down this path. Global temperature records were shattered in July, with scientists saying
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