TIMELINE: What the industry knew and when they knew it. 

BACKGROUNDER: Communities

BACKGROUNDER: West coast Dungeness crab fishery

PRESS RELEASE (11/14/18): Commercial Fishermen’s Association Takes on Fossil Fuel Industry – Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) Files Lawsuit Over Repeated Closures of West Coast Dungeness Crab Fishery

PRESS RELEASE (7/20/18): Baltimore Takes On Fossil Fuel Companies to Protect Taxpayers from the Costs and Consequences of Climate Change

PRESS RELEASE (1/22/18): City of Richmond Becomes Ninth Community Seeking to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable and Protect Its Taxpayers From the Costs and Consequences of Climate Change

PRESS RELEASE (12/20/17): More Communities Seek to Protect Taxpayers from Increasing Costs of Wildfire, Drought, Rising Seas and Extreme Precipitation

PRESS RELEASE (7/17/17): California Communities Confronting Rising Sea Levels Fight Back

Former SEC official debunks fossil fuel industry misinformation – Read the press release and the report sent to the SEC

Climate Change Lawsuits

The History

InsideClimate News (Series):  “Exxon: The Road Not Taken” by Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song, David Hasemyer and John H. Cushman Jr. (Sept. 16, 2015 – Dec. 22, 2015)

LA Times: “What Exxon knew about the Earth’s melting Arctic” by Sara Jerving, Katie Jennings, Masako Melissa Hirsch and Susanne Rust (Oct. 9, 2015)

LA Times: “Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations” by Amy Lieberman and Susanne Rust (Dec. 31, 2015)

The Science

Climate Disclosure Project: “The Carbon Majors Database – CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017” by Paul Griffin and Rick Heede (July 2017)

Climatic Change: “Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854-2010” by Rick Heede (Nov. 21, 2013)

Nature Climate Change: “Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change” by Peter Clark et al. (Feb. 08, 2016)

Nature: “The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions” by H. Damon Matthews, et al. (Apr. 14, 2009)

Nature: “The increasing rate of global mean sea-level rise during 1993-2014” by Xianyao Chen, et al. (Jun. 26, 2017)

The Assessments

City of Imperial Beach: “2016 City of Imperial Beach Sea Level Rise Assessment” (September 2016)

San Mateo County: “County of San Mateo Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment” (April 2017)

Marin County: “Marin Shoreline Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment” (June 2017) and “Marin Ocean Coast Sea Level Rise Adaptation Report” (May 2017)

City of Santa Cruz: “City of Santa Cruz Climate Adaptation Plan Update 2017-2022” (2017)

County of Santa Cruz: “Climate Action Strategy – Vulnerability Assessment” (February 2013)

City of Richmond: “Climate Action Plan – Climate Change Adaptation Study” (July 2016)