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Litigation

Apr. 15, 2006

Climate-Change Suit Goes Global With U.S. Law

SAN FRANCISCO - Unrelenting rains flushing raw sewage into Oakland's Lake Merritt; high tides washing away Santa Monica's famed beaches; snowless Colorado mountains - all, environmentalists believe, the results of global warming.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
     

Unrelenting rains flushing raw sewage into Oakland's Lake Merritt; high tides washing away Santa Monica's famed beaches; snowless Colorado mountains - all, environmentalists believe, the results of global warming.
      And, they argue in a lawsuit facing a critical test today in San Francisco, those problems may be connected to...

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