Using Our Courts to Address Climate Change

Courts require truthful testimony and real documents

Wow, that takes some brass: “These lawsuits will do nothing to address climate change or its root causes,” says the front group for a climate-obstruction front group (yes, they are stacking front groups in front of their front groups now).

A. They don’t get to say that — front group NAM is the worst climate obstructor (per Influence Map), whose purpose for years has been precisely for Congress to “do nothing to address climate change.”

B. They are actually wrong — because courts require truthful testimony and real documents, courts are an essential forum to address climate change, cutting through fossil fuel lies. And because judges and juries are independent, fossil fuel political muscle works less well in court. (No wonder fossil fuel front groups don’t like courts!)

So, can we start by asking the two worst obstructors, NAM and U.S. Chamber, to reveal all their secret fossil fuel funding over, say, the last decade? That kind of info could come out in court . . . .

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