Michael Hiltzik: A federal judge accepts climate-change science, but throws out lawsuit blaming oil companies
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Jun 27, 2018
2 minutes
U.S. District Judge William Alsup was straightforward Monday in ruling against Oakland and San Francisco in their lawsuit to force five big oil companies to pay for the cost of climate change.
Science is on their side, the San Francisco judge said - "This order accepts the science behind global warming" - but the law is not. The problem, he concluded, lies beyond
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