Chevron is suing another oil company for causing climate change

[JosephDredd]

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146879/chevron-suing-another-oil-company-causing-climate-change

Chevron is suing another oil company for causing climate change.
Last year, Oakland sued the American oil company and four others for billions of dollars, to pay for sea walls and other measures to protect the city from the impacts of global warming. Chevron says it hasn’t caused climate change and shouldn’t have to pay—but just in case the court disagrees, then they want Statoil, Norway’s state-owned oil company, to have to pay up, too.

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Chevron’s complaint argues that the company “primarily is a producer of fossil fuels, not a user or burner of such fuels. Greenhouse gases generally are not released from fossil fuels until the fuels are burned or otherwise consumed.” Then it points the finger at Statoil, which, “like Chevron and each of the other Defendants in these actions, has engaged, and continues to engage, directly and through its agents in the United States, in the production and promotion of ‘massive quantities of fossil fuels.’”

According to apeer-reviewed studypublished last year in the journal Climatic Change, Chevron is only one of 90 carbon producers that have cumulatively caused up to50 percent of the increase in global mean surface temperature since 1880, and up to 32 percent of global sea level rise. Chevron is a huge part of that—according to the study, “From 1880 to 2010, emissions traced to the two largest investor-owned (Chevron and ExxonMobil) plus the two largest state-owned (Saudi Aramco and Gazprom) contributed nearly 10 percent to the historical rise in global mean surface temperature.” But other companies, like Statoil, are mentioned as large contributors, too.

Chevron realizes thata reckoning may be coming, and it’s trying to soften the blow.

I should have been a lawyer. It's like posting on Sherdog, but I'd get paid to do it.

 

[bobgeese]

LOL

 

[El Che]

Chevron be like

 

[Rematch]

Well... If they're not the only one that had Jodi on the pinball machine...

 

[hillelslovak87]

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

A city suing Chevron for global warming is ridiculous -- as is Chevron suing another company. All 3 are pointing fingers at themselves.

 

[TheFirstEMP]

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[curryjunkie]

 

[JosephDredd]

Chevron be like

This popped up in my dreams last night

 

[Swing]

A crude argument, but a slick, young lawyer (not some fossil) might strike it rich.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Yeah the lawyers are in CYA mode..

if we're going down they are going down with us..

just getting their 'Financial ducks' in a row.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146879/chevron-suing-another-oil-company-causing-climate-change



I should have been a lawyer. It's like posting on Sherdog, but I'd get paid to do it.

It isnt too late bruh, just go to law school.

 

[Seano]

lol at punishing a company like that for supplying what the whole world uses and demands.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Some small adjacent town should sue Oakland /San Fran -- with them being a top 10 city in the US for global warming contribution.

 

[Trotsky]

lol at punishing a company like that for supplying what the whole world uses and demands.

That's how civil suits work.

They aren't supplying: they're selling. They're reaping the material benefit disproportionate to anyone else. I have no idea what this lawsuit is about, but corporations who damage the environment in order to make profits have been being held accountable (previously, at least) for decades. Car manufacturers whose cars exploded, paints that gave people brain damage, chemical producers who gave their workers cancer and whose pollution caused mass killing of birds and fish.

All of those types of corporations have been "punished" in the form of paying civil damages, and rightfully so.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

This is what’s called a third party claim, and they’re common in pretty much all civil suits. It’s a way for a Defendant to distribute the liability to other party’s who may have contributed to the damage. If the Defendant loses they’re not stuck bearing all the responsibility alone.

It may sound silly, but honestly if Chevron were to lose why shouldn’t they be able to say “we’re not the only ones that caused this problem” and seek indemnity from other wrongdoers?

 

[Trotsky]

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146879/chevron-suing-another-oil-company-causing-climate-change



I should have been a lawyer. It's like posting on Sherdog, but I'd get paid to do it.

It seems like a pretty standard third party contribution claim. More than anything, this is to elongate the legal process and try to dry out the plaintiff's war chest.

If it works, this will become standard in every case that premises injury on climate change.

 

[44nutman]

If Chevron has all these legal bills does that mean their tax breaks won’t trickle down to me?

 

[Trotsky]

If Chevron has all these legal bills does that mean their tax breaks won’t trickle down to me?

Well, it trickles down to their outside counsel.