Multnomah County in Oregon is suing several fossil fuel companies for causing the monster heat wave in Oregon in June 2021.
Multnomah County is the county that includes Portland, Oregon.
That's not all:
The county also seeks an estimated $50 billion for an abatement fund to study, plan and upgrade public health services and infrastructure to help “weatherproof” the county during future extreme heat events.
The video accompanying the story says more than two dozen cities, counties and states have filed similar lawsuits.
Given that the oil companies, like Exxon, did know of the warming potential of their fuels, I think lawsuits like this are justified, just as were the lawsuits against tobacco companies. With enough of them the fossil fuel companies may well settle by some kind of similar multiple hundred-billion dollar type of payment. And they'll be getting off easy.
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