Matt Martin: Chicago should join other cities and take fossil fuel companies to court over the climate crisis

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Commentary: Chicago should join the cities and states taking legal action to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their role in the climate crisis

Protesters calling for action to combat climate change at Daley Plaza in Chicago in 2019.

While Chicagoans pay the price for climate change, the fossil fuel corporations that are most responsible for engineering this crisis are raking in all-time record profits — more than $200 billion last year alone, according to one estimate. Major oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil knew as early as the 1980s that

We’ve all heard this story before. When tobacco companies were caught lying about the dangers of their products, they faced lawsuits and were held accountable.

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