Portland to sue Chevron for heat wave

On Thursday, Portland Oregon's Multnomah County Board of Commissioners acknowledged the anniversary of the 2021 heat wave by unanimously agreeing to file a lawsuit against several large fossil fuel corporations, including Chevron, for their role in climate change that led to the catastrophic heat wave. The county will seek $50 million in actual damages and $1.5 billion in future damages from the defendants, as well as an abatement fund estimated at $50 billion to "study, plan, and upgrade the public health care services and infrastructure" necessary to protect residents during future historic weather events caused by climate change.

According to the Center for Climate Integrity, seven states, 35 municipalities and the District of Columbia are all suing major oil and gas corporations to "end their deception and make polluters pay for climate damages they knowingly caused." Multnomah County's lawsuit will be unique, however, because it stems from a particular event with measurable fatalities and damages.

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I am thinking about suing Portland for all the CO2 they have released driving their cars and heating their homes.

I wouldn't be surprised if we started getting sued for events related to the climate change that was occurring prior to the presence of humans, which was when climate change was dramatically more prevalent than any recent era.

I wouldn't be surprised if we started getting sued for the wildfire damage as well since the climate change is driving these fires so much.

Portland should be careful as the the legal precedent they set. In the unlikely event that they win this case they just might open the door for massive actions against the developed countries by the less developed countries who generated a lot less CO2 over the last century.

You can sue anyone you like, I suppose.

Can we sue the city of Portland for letting people drive cars/etc and as a result making the air harder to breathe at Chevron park?

I think there is a law against bringing frivolous law suits.

you need to grow a brain first, then you can discuss brainpower at that point. just sayin'

I am the leftest person I know. Left handed. I like to eat left overs. Sometimes I feel left out. I used to play in left field. Left to my own devices, I will push for vax diapers. And much more. I am exerting mind control on RM and MW. But I need more brainpower to magnify my effects. Please join me in my leftest union and we will CHANGE THIS PLACE!

@2ebo: Ya all on the left are extreme and most on the right are Rhinos... and you my friend are in the majority. LMAO.

It makes me anytru that people in Oregon hate us and want to destroy our business.

When stupidity spreads like a plague! This country is doomed with so much irrational people that go to the extreme to address basic issues with fantasy logic!

Portlands policies have rendered them to sue to produce revenue. This won’t be the first city!

Shutting down the gas stations would be like shutting down the bars to stop smokers.

Portland should immediately ban the use of any fossil fuels and their derivatives

Ten bingo points for tossing in the term “woke”.

Just shutdown every gasoline station in Portland Oregon's Multnomah County. I guarantee within 72 hours they’ll be saying something different. Bunch of woke hypocrites.

Oregon already sued Purdue pharma over their opi--d crisis. Got half a billion.

Next Portland plans to sue oil companies for the rampant homelessness, dr-g use and violent crime that fossil fuels have created in our city

Sounds resonable, but should not all the people that burned the oil and gas not be co-defendants...meaning like everone in the developed world!

Who will pay to defend against this many suits???

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