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发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: 行为艺术：罗德岛因为气候变化告石油公司
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 2 15:41:57 2018, 美东)
Rhode Island’s attorney general sued a dozen oil and natural gas companies
and their affiliates Monday in state court, accusing them of causing climate
change and not sufficiently mitigating its effects.
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin (D) said Rhode Island is uniquely harmed by
global warming, with its more than 400 miles of shoreline, fishing industry
, marine economy and other factors.
“Rhode Island is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate changes
that is now on our doorstep with sea level rise and an increase in severe
weather patterns, as seen by the extensive damage caused by storms in the
past several years, including Super Storm Sandy and the floods of 2010,”
Kilmartin said in a statement.
“The defendants' actions for the past several decades are already having
and will continue to have a significant and detrimental impact on our
infrastructure, economy, public health, and our eco-systems, and will force
the state to divert already-limited resources to mitigate the effects of
climate change, thereby diminishing resources for other vital programs and
services.”
The defendants in the lawsuit include big companies across the petroleum
supply chain, including Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips Co.
, Marathon Oil Corp. and Hess Corp.
