Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price
by Chris McGreal from Environment | The Guardian on (#5KPKV)
Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America's petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels
After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America's petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes.
An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold the oil and gas industry to account for the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels - and covering up what they knew along the way.
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