Here are a few paragraphs from this article that I found published on NPR's website. I thought it was a pretty interesting read and if want to keep reading I put a link to the full article at the bottom.
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Fishermen Sue Big
Oil For Its Role In Climate Change
December 4, 20188:02 AM ET
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| Michael Melford/Getty Images |
While oil companies built seawalls and elevated their oil rigs to protect critical production infrastructure from the rising sea level, they concealed from the public the knowledge that burning fossil fuels could have catastrophic impacts on the biosphere.
That's what citizens and local governments across the United
States are asserting in lawsuits against oil, gas, and coal companies.
Plaintiffs in the cases have alleged that fossil fuel producers knowingly
subjected the entire planet and future generations to the dire consequences of
their actions.
On Nov. 14, fishermen in
California and Oregon joined the legal fray by filing suit against 30 companies, mainly oil producers.
The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, the plaintiff,
contends that the fossil fuel industry is at direct fault and must be held
accountable for recent warming-related damages to the West Coast's prized
Dungeness crab fishery, which catches millions of the tender-fleshed crustacean
most years, and coastal chefs turn the critters into classics like Crab Louie
and Crab Cioppino.
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