Climate Change
Miller DellaFera PLC is suing large oil and gas companies for their role in climate change, contributing to flooding, extreme heat, and other destructive forces. For years, oil companies along with their trade group American Petroleum Institute have pushed disinformation campaigns while the industry acknowledged internally that climate change was real – a pattern that has been persistent going back to the 1960’s.
These companies need to be held responsible for the costs of climate change, including damage to property and infrastructure necessary to adapt.
Our suit also accuses the companies of deceiving the public by waging campaigns to undermine scientific proof of climate impact. As our lawsuit states, “Petro-Chemical Defendants’ efforts between 1965 and the present to deceive about the consequences of the normal use of their fossil fuel products; conceal the hazards of those products from consumers; promote their fossil fuel products despite knowing the dangers associated with those products; doggedly campaigning against regulation of those products based on falsehoods, omissions, and deceptions; and failure to pursue less hazardous alternative products available to them; unduly inflated the market for fossil fuel products. Consequently, substantially more anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been emitted into the environment than would have been absent that conduct”.
Product liability is defined as the responsibility of a manufacturer or vendor of goods to compensate for injury caused by defective merchandise that has been provided for sale. Under product liability statutes manufacturers have an obligation to ensure that their products are safe for consumers and also have effective warning labels. Oil companies have known for decades that their product was negatively impacting the climate. And did nothing to warn consumers, in fact they hid the data and attempted to minimize the threat of climate change. Miller DellaFera has years of experience handling product liability lawsuits and stand ready to take on an industry that is responsible for climate change.