Fight to make Big Oil pay for climate change heads to Supreme Court
Baltimore may be a continent away from San Francisco, but the coastal cities have at least one thing in common: rising seas. Both are seeing more flooding, more shoreline erosion and more battered infrastructure, and both want the oil industry to pay for the damage. They blame fossil fuels for the global warming that’s causing sea level rise. On Tuesday, Baltimore will lead the campaign to recoup billions of dollars from oil companies in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.