At least Deaths related to 100 heat According to the Washington State Department of Health, in the state from 26 June to July 2, 2021. He Unprecedented The scorching high temperature was stretched Most deadly meteorological phenomena In the history of Washington. Climate change associated with fossil fuel burning Quick This is the extreme heat phenomenon, scientists say.
Misty Leone’s complaint argues that large oil companies are “responsible” for their mother’s death related to climate change. “Warning, marketing, distribution, extraction, refinement, transport, sales of fossil fuels through their failure, defendants responsible for each tolerance for spikes in atmospheric CO2 The levels that have resulted in climate change, and thus almost impossible weather phenomenon and heat dome’s extreme temperature occur, ”suits are accused.
Defendants include Exonmobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, Conocophilips and Philips 66. Philips 66 refused to comment; The rest of the companies did not respond to the recommendations.
The plaintiff is depicted by the Becktold Law firm located in Missoula, Montana. The lawsuit demands wrong death, failure in warning, and the state torture law of public disturbance, and as a public education campaign as a public education campaign as a public education campaign as a public education campaign demands relief to “improve the misinformation of the decades of decades”.
Major oil and gas companies are currently facing more than two dozen climate damage and deception cases brought by the municipal, state and tribal governments. Case filed by Mulnoma County, Oregon in 2023Focused 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat DomeThe Leon case, however, is the first climate liability suit filed by a person against the fossil fuel industry.
“This is the first case that is forming a connection between the misconduct of big oil companies and the death of a specific, individual tragedy, Julie Leon,” said Aaron Razunberg, the Director of Accountability for the Public Citizen’s Climate Program.
