Climate change lawsuits are intended as a tax on oil companies and consumers is a lie.

There is dearly nothing more toxic to the climate of Earth than the petroleum industry and attempting to put fear into consumers that their demand for alternative energies and the past polluting habits of petroleum is some kind of huge conspiracy theory is a lie. There is a strong moral content to all the people seeking to hold the petroleum industry responsible for the damage to Earth's climate when they knew full well it was very dangerous and deadly.

October 20, 2025
By Kamden Mulder

...As environmental activists (click here) across the country increasingly turn to the legal system to target oil and gas companies, a key attorney behind a case that may end up before the Supreme Court is saying the quiet part out loud: Climate change lawsuits are intended as a tax on oil companies and consumers, their legal merits notwithstanding.

David Bookbinder, director of law & policy at the Environmental Integrity Project, worked for years on the legal team that brought a suit on behalf of the county of Boulder, Colo., alleging that two major energy companies concealed the impact their products would have on climate change and are therefore liable for the resulting damage to the county....