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Sheldon Whitehouse: Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud
2015-06-05 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In a May 29 op-ed in The Washington Post, Whitehouse argued that the fossil fuel industrys efforts to discredit climate science and attack environmentalists may constitute deliberate deception of the kind the tobacco industry perpetrated in previous decades. In 2006, a federal judge found the tobacco industry guilty of fraud in a civil lawsuit brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Cigarette companies' efforts to hide the health effects of tobacco consumption...
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