
Extreme Weather Is Sending Home Insurance Rates Through the Roof; Big Oil Should Pay / “If a power company is responsible for the spark that ignites a fire, why not the fossil fuel giants that are turning much of the country into a tinderbox?”
– Opinion piece by three US state senators
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-oil-pay-insurance
Posted by Keith_McNeill65
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But… that would be socialism /s.
The same website has a story about Ted Cruz leading the charge to “prohibit liability against those engaged in the mining, extraction, production, refinement, transportation, distribution, marketing, manufacture, or sale of energy for damages or injunctive or other relief from the use of their products, and for other purposes.”
Unfortunately republicans will block it