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Related: About this forumChildren's Climate Lawsuit Aims to Unearth Documents From Oil Group API
Young plaintiffs hope to uncover how the fossil fuel industry influenced government policies that accelerated climate changeAttorneys representing 21 children who are suing the federal government over its responsibility to slow climate change are seeking answers from the oil and gas industry. The plaintiffs want to uncover what role fossil fuel interests played in shaping government climate policies.
The plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States filed a request for documents from the American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest U.S. trade group for the oil and gas industry and an intervenor on behalf of the U.S. government in the case.
The request seeks a wide range of documents, including any from internal API groups related to climate change and government lobbying. Examples noted in the request include API's CO2 and Climate Change Task Force, its Environmental Strategy Team and its Climate Change Steering Group. It also seeks communications with Exxon and other oil companies discussing climate.
The request specifically seeks memoranda written by individual industry researchers, lobbyists, trade association employees and other fossil fuel advocates. Those people were engaged in early research into climate change and in attempts by the industry to sow doubt about the emerging consensus that global warming is caused by emissions from fossil fuels.
More: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032017/childrens-trust-climate-change-lawsuit-api
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Children's Climate Lawsuit Aims to Unearth Documents From Oil Group API (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Mar 2017
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Kick and rec!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)2. K&R
If we adults can't get the needed actions necessary for results let the kids who will live a whole life with the mess we've left them take the ball. I wouldn't blame them if they pin all environmental catastrophe souly on us with a single brush stroke.
I would.
Rhiannon12866
(205,179 posts)3. I couldn't agree more!
And this is especially relevant right now.