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The attorneys and staff at Sher Edling are dedicated professionals at the forefront of cutting-edge litigation. We help our clients hold polluters accountable for deceiving consumers about climate change, for contaminating the drinking water people rely on, and for threatening our communities and health with dangerous chemicals in our land, air and water. Get to know our team, and click through to explore career opportunities.
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Sher Edling’s work arises out of our conviction that the courts provide an even playing field essential to taking on the biggest polluters. They should not be allowed to make everyone else pay for the damage caused by their actions.
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"As climate change causes seas to rise and storms to become more severe, the roads that connect Slaughter Beach and other hamlets up and down the coast to the rest of the state are flooding more often. The road repair bills are rising alongside the waters.
A changing climate is buckling concrete and flooding roads. States are moving slowly to guard the nation‘s infrastructure.
Responding to increasingly common extreme weather is a vast undertaking that many state transportation departments are only beginning to tackle.
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“With climate change raising sea levels and causing higher storm surges, erosion is speeding up, ravaging the shores on this paradise of the Pacific.”
@MarthaRaddatz reports from Maui as part of @ABC’s "Climate Crisis: Saving Tomorrow" series. https://abcn.ws/3w20vOK
"The fossil fuel industry has not been forthright with the people of the world, an island nation just like us, all island states like us, and island nations are the ones that suffer the most, most quickly," the [Maui] mayor said. #climatelitigation
Hawaii's beaches are disappearing due to climate change
Martha Raddatz covers Hawaii‘s response to climate change on ABC‘s ”This Week” Sunday.
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New project, out now! Rigged: a website, archive & podcast on the history of corporate-funded disinformation. It catalogues the most effective techniques and narratives cooked up by the legends of the PR industry on behalf of every other U.S. industry. http://rigged.media