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"author_name": "Corporate Accountability",
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"title": "Tell Congress and State Attorneys General: Make Big Polluters pay.",
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"description": "It’s time to hold Big Polluters liable -- for the losses and damage they’re knowingly causing, and to pay for the solutions we need to transition to a just, sustainable future. It’s time to make them pay. Write to your members of Congress and your state’s Attorney General now: Urge them to hold Big Polluters liable for the climate crisis. For decades, Big Polluters like Exxon, Shell, and others have known that their products are fueling disastrous climate change. Despite this, they’ve spent billions of dollars to manufacture doubt and denial about the causes of climate change, discredit science, buy political influence, and delay action. Meanwhile, these corporations are making record profits -- all at the expense of people in the Global South, and people of color and low-income communities around the world, including in the United States. People are fighting to protect their homelands from rising seas, their loved ones from extreme weather events, and their lives and livelihoods from floods, droughts, pipelines, brutal fossil fuel extraction, deforestation, destruction of natural ecosystems, land grabs, and other violations of their rights. Communities around the world are struggling to fund urgent recovery needs from climate disasters, and to cover ongoing costs for chronic health problems from pollution. Here’s the thing: We know how to respond to this global crisis. Real, just solutions to address climate change are within reach, and have been led by communities on the front lines of the climate crisis for decades. (See the solutions enshrined in the People’s Demands for Climate Justice.) But frontline communities urgently need funding to implement these solutions, as part of a just and equitable transition. This is why Big Polluters can not only afford to, but must be made to pay for the devastating impacts of the climate crisis -- and pay to implement the just solutions the world urgently needs. It’s time to follow the lead of communities around the globe who are holding polluting industries liable for the damage they have caused. And the U.S. has a crucial role to play in taking on the most powerful industries on the planet. New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Exxon for deceiving its shareholders; the trial is happening right now. Other regions are filing lawsuits as well, including on behalf of the people. These cases will build essential legal precedents. This summer, the U.S. Conference of Mayors voted to oppose any limits on such lawsuits. Activists are demanding that Congress investigate Exxon and other Big Polluters for decades of deception. Polls show that most Americans “believe that fossil fuel companies bear primary responsibility for climate change and should foot the bill to fix the mess they created.” Now is a crucial time, in the lead-up to December’s international climate treaty meetings (COP25), as the U.S. presidential elections heat up, and as U.S. state Attorneys General decide whether to investigate the fossil fuel industry’s decades of climate deception. We need you to join the growing movement to hold Big Polluters liable for the damage they cause. Please act now. Click “send letters” to email your U.S. Senators, your Representative in the U.S. House, and then your state’s Attorney General and say: I’m counting on you to hold Big Polluters accountable. (If you live in New York Massachusetts or Rhode Island, your Attorneys General have already filed lawsuits to hold Big Polluters accountable! But please send this letter to your members of Congress.)",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-and-state-attorneys-general-make-big-polluters-pay"
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