Harvard Law Advocates Prosecuting Oil Cos. for “Climate Homicide”

Just over a year ago, MDN brought you the news that two lawyers, one from Public Citizen’s climate program and the other a professor at George Washington University Law School, had written a paper to be published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review that claims if there’s a NATURAL disaster, like a flood or hurricane or big snowstorm, and if people die in that event, governments and prosecutors can sue Big Oil, holding Big Oil criminally negligent for homicide (see Lawyers Claim Oil Companies Can be Sued for “Climate Homicide”). It's no joke. Believe it or not, the article was recently (finally) published by Harvard. Cue the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland...

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