Oil and Opioids on Trial

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Tobacco companies, opioid suppliers, gun manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry -- all have been brought under fire, and into the courts, for knowingly causing public harm, and even death, with their products. Should corporations be held liable for harmful outcomes like mass shootings, the opioid crisis, and climate change? We all benefit from the energy fossil fuels provide, from the lights we turn on to around-the-world airline flights. How much responsibility falls on the product, and how much on the user? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Ann Carlson, Environmental Law Professor, Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change & Environment Co-Director, UCLA Ellen Gilmer, Senior Legal Reporter, Bloomberg News Ted Boutrous, Partner, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP Scott Segal, Partner, Bracewell Portions of this program were recorded at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.5	Tobacco companies, opioid suppliers, gun manufacturers, and the fossil fuel industry,
1:06.2	all have been brought under fire and into the courts for knowingly causing public harm and even death with their products.
1:08.5	But there's an important difference, says environmental law professor Anne Carlson,
1:12.7	personal responsibility.
1:14.5	Climate change harms from oil companies harm all of us, whereas one of the big distinctions
1:21.5	that actually in some respects makes the opioid and tobacco cases harder is that you
1:26.8	have an individual who engaged in behavior that is
1:30.5	contributing to the harm. Ted Butrus, a lawyer who represents Chevron, recognizes that distinction too,
1:37.0	but he maintains that his client and other fossil fuel companies aren't entirely culpable.
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