From WSJopinion: Lawsuits against oil companies do nothing to reduce carbon emissions while diverting people and resources from the search for real solutions to climate change, writes Curt_Levey
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a U.N. climate conference in Madrid on Dec 2, 2019, to announce that the U.S. is still part of the Paris Agreement, despite President Trump giving the U.N. formal notice of withdrawal from the pact in November. Image: Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesIn the courtroom, as every lawyer knows, you can win or lose by a little. You can also win or lose by a lot. Last week, in its climate-change lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp.
New York’s legal pursuit of Texas-based Exxon Mobil began in 2015 under Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and continued under his successors. What started as an allegation of “a longstanding fraudulent scheme by Exxon . . . to deceive investors” about climate change ended with Letitia James, who...
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