Climate litigation is on the rise globally as individuals, groups, and governments seek legal action to enforce climate laws and hold entities accountable.
Chicago is joining a flood of lawsuits against fossil fuel companies with a court filing that aims to hold BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell accountable for local climate impacts.
"Inefficiencies in the mass production of green technologies by firms with monopoly power in small but captive markets will neither reduce greenhouse gases, nor improve people's quality of life."