Oil majors target judges as climate suits multiply

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Some rural conservatives are welcoming their slice of federal incentives meant to spur clean energy technology and related jobs.
56% : A new offshore wind proposal, driven by the Biden and Newsom administrations' efforts to dramatically increase clean energy, would erect dozens of massive turbines with blades as long as a football field in an area of the Pacific Ocean nearly 10 times the size of Manhattan.
44% : In Rhode Island, Superior Court Judge William Carnes Jr. indicated that he will not grant the industry's request to reverse his decision to allow the state to investigate oil industry operations.
38% : Oil companies and their allies are trying out a new legal defense tactic: Blame the judge.
38% : In Rhode Island, for example, oil companies say the judge hearing their case created the "appearance of bias" by citing two news stories about climate change that had not been entered into the record.
37% : The lawsuits have a ways to go, but could force oil companies to pony up hundreds of billions of dollars for harming the public -- much like tobacco and opioid manufacturers before them.

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