Oil Industry Lawyers Fight a $50 Billion Climate Case in Oregon

submitted 1 week ago by

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/climate/portland-heat-wave-lawsuit-oil-industry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tFA.lp8W.m7jIk34me-2T

The lawsuit aims to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for a heat wave in Portland five years ago. The industry says the case should be thrown out.

0

19

Log in to comment

Create post

Join

#climate change #food #europe #heatwave #heat #wet bulb temperature #global warming
Explore Tag Cloud

Climate

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming