BP Wins Key Ruling In City Of Baltimore Climate Change Lawsuit

Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Just as in the Sunoco v. City of Honolulu case, which I wrote about in April, BP and other defendants in this case challenged the ability of Baltimore or any other city to prove damages caused by their specific emissions under the reasoning that prevailing climate science itself maintains that any impacts of climate change are of necessity caused by emissions originating from millions of sources spread across the globe. After a Honolulu court ruled in the city's favor in t ...