Oklahoma Latest State To Look To Block Climalawfare Against Fossil Fuels Companies

I think it would be more fun if they instead passed a law that said that anyone or any entity that sues fossil fuels companies must show that they have stopped using fossil fuels in their own lives. Maybe even as far as showing they are not using any plastics or one of the 700 products made with petroleum

Oklahoma bill would block climate change lawsuits against fossil fuel companies

A measure introduced in the legislature this year would prohibit anyone in Oklahoma from suing fossil fuel companies for damages related to the effects of climate change or greenhouse gas emissions.

Senate Bill 1439, which would create the Energy Security and Independence Act, was authored by Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville, and Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton.

Fossil fuel companies violating their permits or environmental laws are exempt from the bill’s language.

That’s reasonable

Moore said the legislation would protect the industry, which includes any company working with oil and gas, coal, natural gas liquids or refined petroleum products.

“The reality is, if you were to get that judgment, billions and billions of dollars, that’s just passed on to the taxpayer — that would be passed on at the pump, that would be passed on through electricity costs, energy costs across the board would dramatically change,” he said. “There’s no reason that that has any place in any court of law, but especially in Oklahoma.”

And the people filing the nuisance suits use lots of fossil fuels themselves.

Both authors of the Oklahoma bill say there is no statewide quantifiable impact of climate change or greenhouse gas emissions. Yet researchers with federal agencies and other organizations have estimated the U.S. is burdened with billions of dollars each year because of climate-related damages and costs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they’re just making numbers up. Maybe they should be sued for contributing to climate doom via their own use of fossil fuels.