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Turkey

Is Turkey’s Prosecution of Shady Builders after 12,141 Structures Collapse in Earthquake a Model for going after Big Oil for Climate Disasters?

Just as shoddy construction was responsible for many of the earthquake deaths, carbon dioxide emissions will be understood to have provoked the climate-related disaster. At that point the government may well be under enormous pressure from the public to issue arrest warrants for officials at Big Carbon corporations.

Remember that Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein, a serial abuser of women, was untouchable until he wasn’t. Likewise, judges used to throw out suits against Big Tobacco by surviving relatives of lung cancer victims, but then in 2000 Philip Morris lost such a case and had to pay out $51.4 million to a single family.

The carbon polluters day is coming, too.

 

Source: Is Turkey’s Prosecution of Shady Builders after 12,141 Structures Collapse in Earthquake a Model for going after Big Oil for Climate Disasters?

Corporate Media, Corporate Politics, Uncategorized

Big tobacco quietly races back into Grand Prix sponsorship deals

Fossil Fuels and Big Tobacco the union of the unwanted join to FIGHT BACK (ODT)

via Big tobacco quietly races back into Grand Prix sponsorship deals

Fossil fuels

$7.7 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidies ‘Like Being In Bed With Big Tobacco’ – New Matilda

Calls for an end to fossil fuel subsidies are growing louder in the lead up to Treasurer Scott Morrison’s May 3 budget, with a diverse coalition of advocates demanding an end to the $7.7 billion free ride they claim the fossil fuel industry gets each year. At a press conference in Canberra this morning academics,More

Source: $7.7 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidies ‘Like Being In Bed With Big Tobacco’ – New Matilda