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Should Climate Damages Cases Be Heard in State or Federal Court? Climate change affects communities in calamitous ways: rising seas; increased storm severity, frequency and duration; disruption of the hydrologic cycle (such as extreme heat, extreme precipitation,...

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Should Climate Damages Cases Be Heard in State or Federal Court? Climate change affects communities in calamitous ways: rising seas; increased storm severity, frequency and duration; disruption of the hydrologic cycle (such as extreme heat, extreme precipitation,...

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sheredlingllp avatarSher Edling@sheredlingllp·

"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

sheredlingllp avatarSher Edling@sheredlingllp·

"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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Hawaii’s beaches are disappearing due to climate change

October 31, 2021

“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.

A US small-town mayor sued the oil industry. Then Exxon went after him

October 16, 2021

“People ask, how did you go against the world’s largest fossil fuel companies? Isn’t that scary? No. What’s scary is coastal flooding and the idea that whole cities would be under water,” said the mayor.

‘Spin and deception:’ Ellison on suing fossil fuel companies

October 8, 2021

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he’s taking big oil to court because ‘we can’t expect them to grow a conscience’

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