Nov. 30, 2011
9th Circuit hears case against oil companies over climate change
Native Alaskans took on the country's largest oil companies and utilities in a case trying to pin blame on the businesses for contributing to climate change and the imminent destruction of their seaside village.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Native Alaskans took on the country's largest oil companies and utilities at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, trying to pin blame on the businesses for contributing to climate change and the imminent destruction of their seaside village.
Residents of Kivalina, a village of roughly 400 Inupiat Eskimos located 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle, sued 20 companies in 2008...
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