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Feb 3, 2012 | Posted by: roboblogger

Virginia Court Grants Rehearing of Global Warming Claims Case

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The Virginia Supreme Court has recently granted rehearing of a closely followed legal case involving global warming, The AES Corp.

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SpaceBlues

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OK. To be reheard is the case that asks whether an insurer offering a commercial general liability (CGL) policy is liable for claims when the insured is accused of contributing to the climate change and causing environmental damage.
NobodyYouKnow

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While applauding the 'grass roots' activism, it is about as feasible as trying to sue litterbugs for the cost of park cleanups.

The right way is to work on a program to decrease littering.
SpaceBlues

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Feb 4, 2012
 
NobodyYouKnow wrote:
While applauding the 'grass roots' activism, it is about as feasible as trying to sue litterbugs for the cost of park cleanups.
The right way is to work on a program to decrease littering.
Feasibility is not the issue.

In USA, we do have "fines" etc for punishment for a crime or other offence. Plenty of polluters have paid and paid.
NobodyYouKnow

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Feb 4, 2012
 
SpaceBlues wrote:
<quoted text>Feasibility is not the issue.
In USA, we do have "fines" etc for punishment for a crime or other offence. Plenty of polluters have paid and paid.
But 'legal harrassment' works both ways.. it may be available to all but it is not the best way to go since it is just one facet of 'dog eat dog'.
ustabearepug

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to the wingnut rights that believe global warming is a hoax as does senator Inhofe, when you all are dead and forgotten fify years down the road, what if you are wrong? Your legacy will be like that of George Bush and Dick Cheney which are murderers
torch

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Just pay your carbon taxes to al gore aka manbearpig and he will make all the warming stop.

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