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California sued Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, as well as the domestic oil industry's biggest lobby, the American Petroleum Institute for misleading the public on climate change. npr.org/2023/09/16/1199…
Imagine places where exposure to pollution is highest. In 2020, Mississippi had the lowest life expectancy at 71.9…
California sued Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, as well as the domestic oil industry's biggest lobby, the American Petroleum Institute for misleading the public on climate change. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/16/1199974919/california-oil-lawsuit-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR3iPeh8HDOBxyAJebl_Varaos-QwsnZWfvsZewKrdotHNCScdDv7CX_o1w
Imagine places where exposure to pollution is highest. In 2020, Mississippi had the lowest life expectancy at 71.9 years, followed by West Virginia and Louisiana, with life expectancies of 72.8 years and 73.1 years.. https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-highest-and-lowest-life-expectancy/
45 years ago I was involved in litigation over nuclear plants in Pa. Plaintiffs alleged that downstream the rates for cancer and other terminal diseases was increased. Wasn't successful. Today, the result may be different. One reason Republicans hate the EPA is that they've been successful. https://cfpub.epa.gov/enforcement/cases/
When I was working, part of my jurisdiction included whistleblower cases involving environmental statutes, https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oalj/PUBLIC/WHISTLEBLOWER/REFERENCES/REFERENCE_WORKS/EDIGC
Employees who prevail under major federal environmental laws are entitled to:
Reinstatement
Back pay with interest
A complete “make-whole” compensation (including restoration of seniority/sick leave, etc.)
Compensatory damages (for emotional distress and loss of professional reputation)
Attorneys’ fees and costs
“Affirmative Relief” (such as requiring a letter of apology and formal posting of the decision)
Our whistleblower statutes generally do not preempt state common law actions for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy. English v. General Electric Co., 496 U.S. 72 (1990); although some states require employees to elect a remedy and preclude state claims where the remedy under federal law is adequate. At least 38 states have adopted statutory whistleblower protections, though most of these statutes protect only employees in the public sector.
Thanks Daniel. Mississippi and Louisiana , and east Texas, up to Beaumont is Cancer Alley, and where most of our oil refineries are located. My fathers family relocated to Cancer Alley in 1944, from what was later known as Cancer Capital of America, Crossett, AR, home of the Koch Families, Georgia Pacific pulp mill that makes cardboard, Angel Soft and Brawny.
In both locales, the family has suffered and died from cancer, aunts, uncles 1st, 2nd and 3rd cousins.
The common thread between Louisiana, Mississippi and West Virginia is the carbon industry, As is Kentucky whose major industry is coal mining, that produces coal refuse heaps (slags, tailings) which pile up and leach poisons into the water table, streams and occasionally break and dump the tailings into waterways.