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I Led the US Lawsuit Against Big Tobacco for Its Harmful Lies. Big Oil Is Next
05 Jul 2022 | Abstracted from The Guardian
"Today, the fossil fuel industry finds itself in the same precarious legal position as the tobacco industry did in the late 1990s. The behaviour and goals of the tobacco and petroleum industries are pretty similar -and there are many similarities in their liabilities.
"...the tide is beginning to turn. More than 1,800 lawsuits have been filed over climate liability worldwide."
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