NJ sues oil and gas companies over climate changeInside the more than 130-year-old Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal — which was battered by Hurricane Sandy ten years ago — state officials announced a lawsuit against five major oil and gas companies on Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday’s lawsuit names Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, a trade group of which all the companies are members. Attorney General Matt Platkin, as well as officials with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Environmental Protection, said the lawsuit was filed on behalf of New Jersey residents.
Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, counsel for Chevron, called Tuesday’s lawsuit “a distraction from the serious problem of global climate change, not an attempt to find a real solution.” Marilyn Baer, a Hoboken spokeswoman, said the city recently won an appeal to have the case heard in State court as originally filed.
“ExxonMobil will continue to invest in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while meeting society’s growing demand for energy,” Norton said in a statement.N.J. could divest its $92B pension fund from fossil fuels. What it means financially and for climate change. “The record of the past two decades demonstrates that the industry has achieved its goal of providing affordable, reliable American energy to U.S. consumers while substantially reducing emissions and our environmental footprint. Any suggestion to the contrary is false,” said a spokesman with the American Petroleum Institute.
Not to mention the cities here, Jersey City and Hoboken are situated on a FLOOD PLAIN. Stop taking in development money and putting more and more people in harms way then.
It’s probably time for the people to sue people like this to compensate for high energy costs. Such a joke. Or at least vote this crap out. The SPR has just 22 days of US demand left and here we are with narrative headlines instead of solutions.
Platkin, another activist clown parading around carrying water for the climate activist governor. What an absolute waste of taxpayer money. Worry about rising crime, not a lawsuit that will go nowhere and solve none of the problems they claim exist.
And here is just one reason why we have high energy costs.. the constant barrage and narrative driven lawsuits against companies that produce the energy we ALL consume and NEED to live. High energy costs are a direct result of the attack on these companies by one party.
This might not be the dumbest lawsuit I’ve ever seen, but it’s up there.