{"id":1772993,"date":"2022-12-12T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772993"},"modified":"2022-12-12T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:33:35","slug":"new-york-dem-proposes-climate-change-bill-allowing-citizens-to-sue-big-oil-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-dem-proposes-climate-change-bill-allowing-citizens-to-sue-big-oil-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Dem Proposes Climate Change Bill Allowing Citizens To Sue Big Oil Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-dem-proposes-climate-change-bill-allowing-citizens-to-sue-big-oil-companies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772993&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Yorkers<\/a> may have the chance to sue big oil companies and other fossil fuel producers under new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2021\/S9612\">legislation<\/a> proposed by a Brooklyn Democrat, which emulates a Texas law against abortion providers.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) introduced the legislation last week that would target fossil fuel companies with annual revenues over $1 billion demonstrating \u201cnegligence\u201d while \u201cstoring, transporting, refining, importing, exporting, producing, manufacturing\u201d products such as petroleum and natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effects of climate change in New York \u2014 especially in communities like mine \u2014 are undeniable,\u201d Myrie told <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/ny-state-of-politics\/2022\/12\/12\/texas-anti-abortion-law-becomes-model-for-climate-bill-in-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a>. \u201cWe are quickly running out of time to reverse this climate emergency, and my legislation gives ordinary New Yorkers a chance to hold bad actors in the fossil fuel industry accountable for decades of negligence and denial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noted in the legislation, as reported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/12\/proposed-nys-bill-to-let-new-yorkers-sue-polluters-over-climate-change-damages\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, U.S.-based companies like ExxonMobile, Chevron, and 90 other foreign and domestic enterprises allegedly produce 63% of carbon dioxide and methane emissions into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe costs of inaction are so high \u2014 more homes destroyed by worsening floods, more lives ruined by chronic asthma and extreme heat that threatens us all. It\u2019s time for regular New Yorkers to say enough is enough,\u201d Myrie told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Myrie proposed the bill after a 2021 Texas law, which local media <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/ny-state-of-politics\/2022\/12\/12\/texas-anti-abortion-law-becomes-model-for-climate-bill-in-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> allows any person to make civil claims for damages against abortion providers or anyone who assists with a woman obtaining an abortion after a pregnancy enters its sixth week.<\/p>\n<p>He said the concept could \u201csave our planet and protect our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Ken Pokalsky, vice president of the Business Council of New York, told the Post the law would benefit lawyers as it\u2019s \u201cdesigned for class action suits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pokalsky said it would unfairly punish companies despite a state climate law that requires the state to reduce 85% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while New York adopts more renewable energy sources like wind and solar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to eliminate the use [of fossil fuel] anytime in the immediate future. We\u2019re dependent on it \u2014 but you\u2019re gonna say the person who provides this essential product is going to be financially liable for it?\u201d Pokalsky said. \u201cWhat\u2019s the logic of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan McCall of Tully Rinckey, a national law firm, told the New York Post that the law could put courts in a vulnerable position when personal problems are caused by pollution with alleged negligence of the fossil fuel companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be similar, in my opinion, to any other personal injury action, where we\u2019re gonna need to get medical experts that are going to be able to say, as a result of this specific emission, that this type of injury happened to you,\u201d McCall said. \u201cYou would begin to see a flood of litigation when it comes to these types of environmental cases like we haven\u2019t seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCall added the bill could face formidable challenges from companies that object to state lawmakers dictating what they do within their company despite \u201cplausible ways to make polluters pay for demonstrable damage caused by their use of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely think you\u2019re going to see federal challenges come into this bill. I think that\u2019s going to be highly likely, but I do definitely think this bill has a lot of merit when it comes to allowing private actors to bring litigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Myrie, however, told <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/ny-state-of-politics\/2022\/12\/12\/texas-anti-abortion-law-becomes-model-for-climate-bill-in-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a>\u00a0that the fossil fuel industry \u201cwill be held accountable for the damage\u201d caused to New York\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>If lawmakers pass the legislation, the bill will advance to the desk of Governor Kathy Hochul, who supports the state\u2019s move toward a so-called green economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers may have the chance to sue big oil companies and other fossil fuel producers under new climate change legislation proposed by a Brooklyn Democrat, which emulates a Texas law against abortion providers. State Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) introduced the legislation last week that would target fossil fuel companies with annual revenues over $1 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1772996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5028,5103,4538,4321,6997,6202,6244,7393,5392,7170,6195,3859],"class_list":["post-1772993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-allowing","tag-change","tag-citizens","tag-climate","tag-companies","tag-daily","tag-dem","tag-oil","tag-proposes","tag-sue","tag-wire","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}