A major Calgary-based energy company is facing its fourth lawsuit in U.S. courts over climate change. It goes on to say those companies have been aware through their own internal research starting in the 1960s that their product causes climate change. Legal experts such as Michael Burger, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, have called such cases “plausible,” but warned they face an uphill battle. He has said both the tobacco and climate change lawsuits had strong evidence of corporate cover-up. A report last year for the United Nations counted 654 legal cases in 24 countries that dealt with the science of climate change and mitigation efforts.

Source: National Post November 15, 2018 18:45 UTC