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Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say.

Government interventions are problematic, so intervene only when the case is fully proven

This latest People of the State of California v. ExxonMobil lawsuit is not a watershed legal action in the least, it is little more than a repackaged repetition of prior lawsuits among a larger lineage of efforts dating back to the late 1990s** to defame the fossil fuel industry and skeptic climate scientists.

Newly unveiled records show that Shell began collecting knowledge about climate change in the 1960s, Jessica Corbett reports. By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams Reporting on a cache of documents published over the weekend shows Shell knew about the impact of fossil fuel even earlier than prev

‘The Petroleum Papers’ is getting raves while inspiring rage. Use that anger for fuel, says the author. A Tyee interview.

DeSmog As climate change liability —  who is to blame — increasingly lands in courtrooms around the globe, the Philippines Commission on Human Rights is taking a different and unique approach, investigating climate change impacts as a human rights infringement. The commission has held a series of hearings this year to investigate the role of fossil fuel companies (also known as “carbon majors“) in causing climate change, concealing climate science, delaying policy solutions, and fa...