New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say
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.
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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.
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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
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