Baltimore Is Suing Big Oil Over Climate Change

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

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Summary

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case brought by the city of Baltimore against more than a dozen major oil and gas companies including BP, ExxonMobil and Shell. In the lawsuit, BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the city government argues that the fossil fuel giants must help pay for the costs of climate change because they knew that their products cause potentially catastrophic global warming. NPR climate reporter Rebecca Hersher has been following the case.

Read Rebecca's digital piece about the Supreme Court case here.

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0:07.1	Hey Rebecca, her shirt.
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0:22.5	My session's so bad at the thing time.
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