Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
Feb. 8, 2018
Beware climate policy shaped through lawsuits
Filing public nuisance suits against oil companies for making and distributing fossil fuels is not the right way to fashion intelligent environmental policy.
Richard A. Epstein
Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution
Richard is the Laurence A. Tisch professor of law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.
In recent weeks, a procession of California cities, led by San Francisco and Oakland, have sued dozens of oil companies, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, for creating a public nuisance by making and distributing fossil fuels. People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C. et al., CGC-17-561370 (S.F. Super. Ct., filed Sept. 19, 2017); People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C...
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