Even states can't hold fossil fuel companies liable for pollution:

"Judge Alsup’s primary rationale for dismissal was that the courts are not the proper place to deal with such global issues as determining rights and assigning responsibility for the damages caused by fossil fuel use. Rather, such matters should be addressed by the executive and legislative branches of government and not the judiciary."
PDF of paper here:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=sabin_climate_change
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#ClimateChange #CarbonTax #PollutionTax

“Carbon taxation, coupled with appropriate intergenerational redistribution, can make all current and future generations better off. Indeed, it can make them uniformly better off.”
-- NBER paper “Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win”, PDF here:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25760/w25760.pdf

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Polluters have shifted the cost of their behavior onto everyone else. We have to stand up to them and put a stop their cost-shifting. We need accountability. People -- and especially corporations -- need to pay for the harms they cause the rest of us.

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This morning while I was in the shower the air suddenly and completely filled with the smell of toxic diesel exhaust. Opening the shower curtain the air was no better, and I hopped out to discover it had filled my bedroom too. I ran, dripping water everywhere, to the window fan that was pulling in the air and turned it off, then evacuated to the kitchen where the air was better.
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Big Oil have had decades to both prepare for & adapt to 'Green' energy. They could have been at the forefront of developing alternative energy sources: they have the resources & the skills, but not the will or the motivation, only paying lip service to any climate effects of pollution. Companies that make profits through exploitation of either people or the environment need to pay for the consequences of their actions. We need a #PollutionTax NOW.