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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote") wrote:

Fascist republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever

Citizens, we need to speak up about the pollution and destruction of our lands and waters.

If climate change isn't real, then why protect big oil from climate change lawsuits?

https://heated.world/p/republicans-introduce-extreme-bill

#congress #news #usa #science #pollution #registertovote #climate

In summary, the bill says: - No state or municipality can file a climate lawsuit - No state or municipality can pass or enforce - law making polluters pay for the consequences of their pollution - Existing climate cases would all be dismissed - Existing polluter pay laws would be voided - Private citizens can never sue fossil fuel companies over climate harm 9 1 (2) NO PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.—No private 2 right of action or claim shall be maintained, im- 3 plied, or inferred under any State law with respect 4 to climate change-related harms from greenhouse 5 gas emissions, The gun industry achieved a similar type of legal immunity in 2005. That law, called Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, has largely prevented victims of gun violence from seeking justice against irresponsible industry actors, and has sometimes resulted in victims being forced to pay gun industry legal fees. This would do something similar for the fossil fuel industry. But unlike the gun industry's liability shield, there would be no exceptions at all.