cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/39058653
Louisiana has joined a handful of Republican states that have recently passed legislation aimed at banning lawsuits against oil and gas companies over the harms of climate change.
The Louisiana Energy Protection Act, written by state Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, is aimed at preventing lawsuits filed by states and local jurisdictions in other parts of the U.S. from playing out in Louisiana. Across the country, about 30 lawsuits seeking to hold industry to account for the impacts of climate change have been weaving their way through the legal system, but none have been brought in Louisiana.
The lawsuits seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the impacts of sea level rise, extreme weather events, wildfires and flooding, arguing that the companies should pay for measures needed to adapt, such as seawalls and building elevations. Louisiana has now banned those types of claims from being brought in state court against oil and gas producers or any other defendant.
12 Comments
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 74d
MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 74d
Sell your people out to big oil and they vote for you. Madness.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 74d
So they’re at last accepting that climate change is real?
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 74d
They know it's real, and have known for decades. They just don't give a fuck.
bstix@feddit.dk · 10 pts · 74d
They were probably the first know. They do give a fuck. About hiding it and avoiding responsibility, while also lobbying to make it as unavoidable as possible. The fuckers knew well before the invention of the fossil fuel engine. Before the cars needed roads made of tarmac. Before the invention of the word jaywalking to keep pedestrians off the roads, so the cars could take over the entire infrastructure.
They knew, not decades ago, but more than a century ago that their product would destroy the atmosphere and they still went all in.
buzz86us@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 74d
We might as well just close Louisiana to people, and make the whole thing an industrial zone
vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 10 pts · 74d
So .. sue the state?
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 74d
States have sovereign immunity so you can't sue them either in most cases.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 74d
Soap, ballot, jury, lalala there's another 🎶🎵
TransNeko@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 74d
lets just sue them for not causing climate change instead. watch them fuck themselves over just to avoid a lawsuit.
Triumph@fedia.io · 8 pts · 74d
"Or any other defendant." Meaning that in Louisiana, nobody can be held accountable for climate change.
Is there any place in that state that does emissions testing? Because if there is, this feels like they can't do that anymore.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 74d
I mean you could always burn them alive to make them pay for climate change. It never needs to be civil.
treehugger6@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d