Posted by
Average Voter on Monday, May 26, 2008 11:11:48 AM
Lawyers
suing energy companies for coastal erosion in Alaska.
The suit makes two main points: First, that the fossil-fuel baddies "are responsible for a substantial portion of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have caused global warming and Kivalina's special injuries." The suit also accuses ExxonMobil, British Petroleum, Duke Energy et al, of funding questionable scientific research that covers up their culpability in global warming.
The article goes on to explain how much money is in play here, rather than the issue of the environment.
No court in the land is going to let lawyers get rich off this kind of frivolity, I hear you thinking. Think again. Hagens Berman played a key role in the groundbreaking, multi-state litigation against the tobacco companies, and now they are going back for more. "It's the same game plan that brought down Big Tobacco," Stephan Faris writes in the current issue of The Atlantic.
Money-money-money-moooneeeeey...mooooney. Sing along with me...