Vermont poised to become first US state to charge Big Oil for climate damage [The Guardian]
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Love to see it. I'd love to see other states do this, and for states like PA to go after US Steel and others for the massive health toll their pollution has taken on the local population. They should be paying out the ass for the alarming cancer rates their smog causes.
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I'm all for liability, but how do you directly correlate a specific company's past CO2 emissions output to any non-specific effect of climate damage?
Are there metered measurements of their past CO2 emissions? Even so, how do you connect the dots?
The EPA Superfund primarily deals with past chemical dumping and spills onto land and into water. You can identify exactly where those chemicals came from and where they were dumped to force the companies to pay for the cleanups.
But how do you narrow down CO2 emissions damage, and how do you clean it up? Or are they talking about some other kind of emissions?
Are there metered measurements of their past CO2 emissions? Even so, how do you connect the dots?
The EPA Superfund primarily deals with past chemical dumping and spills onto land and into water. You can identify exactly where those chemicals came from and where they were dumped to force the companies to pay for the cleanups.
But how do you narrow down CO2 emissions damage, and how do you clean it up? Or are they talking about some other kind of emissions?
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A better system than a democratic republic where our elected officials make decisions that we can then respond to with our votes would actually be a supreme council of unelected, unaccountable high priests being allowed to override congress and the states and who base their decisions on communing with the spirits of the founders and determining what they may or may not have wanted. Best system ever. No notes.
The founders would not recognize most the current population of America as citizens. Women and PoCs