Chicago sues oil companies over climate ‘disinformation’; Lawsuit ‘set up for failure,’ industry warns – Cook County Record

Harkening to the anti-tobacco litigation of decades past, the city claimed the petroleum companies and their spokespeople, such as the Washington, D.C.-based American Petroleum Institute, marketed their products in a manner similar to those used by tobacco companies, which allegedly misled consumers by claiming their cigarettes were less harmful by labeling them as "low tar" or "light." The city asserted the oil industry allegedly misled consumers by marketing fuels as "cleaner" or "emissions reducing."
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Hello, Indiana!
2 years ago

By now it should be fairly obvious that mayor Raggedy would have a go at suing God to try and shore up the gaping financial holes in his “ budget “. The middle school teacher that would be the Chocolate King is in way over his head, while he’s struggling with raising his BLACK family on the BLACK west side of a town he seeks to make exclusively BLACK once the illegals serve their purpose and are discarded.

The Railroader
2 years ago

That’s Mayor Little (Johnson) to we chumbolones,

The Railroader
2 years ago

If a climate religion devotee DC jury can find Mark Steyn guilty of defaming a lying, cretinous climate cleric; if an imbecile hyper-partisan judge in NYC can single handedly impose an arbitrary fine for a practice that every real estate owner in the world employs, then it remains possible that a low-information jury could side with radical climate clerics and further hamper a critical industry that affects everyone, both climate cleric and sane people alike, from producing reasonably priced energy that moves everything in the world. These lunatics will not stop until civilization is destroyed. Remember, YOU are the carbon… Read more »

JackBolly
2 years ago

Marxists throwing crap against the wall, hoping a corrupt court will find for them something.

Tom Paine's Ghost
2 years ago

Winning or losing isn’t the point. Publicly spectacular Virtue Signaling (paid for by the taxpayers) is the point. It will be a nice gold star for BJ’s marxist resume.

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