Climate

We represent states, tribes, and local governments to hold certain industry members accountable for that conduct, bringing lawsuits under consumer protection, antitrust, public nuisance, failure to warn, and negligence theories of liability. Sher Edling is proud to serve as outside counsel to 10 states, the District of Columbia, two federally-recognized Indian tribes, and 13 local governments across the country.

Public entities representing more than one out of every four Americans have filed lawsuits to hold members of the fossil fuel industry accountable for deceiving and failing to warn consumers, greenwashing, violating antitrust laws, and more.

Climate change is a crisis with local impacts everywhere, including rising seas, more frequent heat waves and droughts, more destructive storms, and growing public health threats. Taxpayers, residents, and businesses around the country are increasingly forced to pay the enormous costs necessary to mitigate and survive those impacts. The fossil fuel industry has known for more than 50 years that this would happen. But instead of warning anyone about the danger, many chose to deceive consumers about the realities of climate change and the role they and their products play in causing it. Our climate practice seeks to hold them accountable for that deception, and to shift the enormous financial burdens of surviving today’s climate crisis off taxpayers and onto those whose actions have been making it worse for half a century.