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Fossil fuel companies risk plague of 'asbestos' lawsuits as tide turns on climate change
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Oil, gas and coal companies face the mounting risk of legal damages for alleged climate abuse as global leaders signal an end to business-as-usual and draw up sweeping plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Bank of America has warned. nvestors in the City are increasingly concerned that fossil fuel groups and their insurers are on the wrong side of a powerful historical shift and could be swamped with exhorbitant class-action lawsuits along the lines of tobacco and asbestos litigation in the...
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