For climate activists angry over Trump's rollback of policies designed to fight greenhouse gas emissions, Dem candidates' calls for aggressive action are long overdue
of 5,000 people by the Yale Project on Climate Communication found 57 percent of Americans believe fossil fuel companies are responsible and should pay for the destruction caused by climate change, and 50 percent support suing those companies. The Yale group found that
"These campaign plans all seem to pit their goals against the working families who rely on affordable American energy in every facet of their daily lives," spokesperson Ben Marter said in a statement. Communities have in the past filed lawsuits against the oil and gas industry over climate change. They include Kivalina, a remote indigenous Alaskan village that unsuccessfully pressed fossil fuel companies a decade ago to cover costs for relocating the community when flooding made it uninhabitable.
But the lawsuits piling up across the country take various approaches. Plaintiffs argued in separate cases that climate change harms the quality of life for future generations, that companies have misled shareholders about the financial risks of fossil fuels, and that companies should be liable for costs from catastrophic weather worsened by climate change.
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