Thumbnail Image
Publication

Global warming tort litigation

Boutrous, Theodore J.
; 
Lanza, Dominic
Author(s)
Boutrous, Theodore J.
Lanza, Dominic
Contributor(s)
Keywords
climate change
global warming
law
GE Subjects
Environmental ethics
Resources ethics
Collections
Ecotheology
Show all metadata
Files
Thumbnail Image
currents35-11-boutrous-2008-0915.pdf
Adobe PDF, 96.19 KB
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175851
Online Access
Abstract
"Climate change litigation is booming. The past five years have witnessed a proliferation of global warming lawsuits brought under an array of novel legal theories. This article focuses on the subset of global warming cases involving “public nuisance” claims. In those cases, various plaintiffs (including state governments, environmental groups, Mississippi landowners, New Yorkers, and Alaskan villagers) have brought tort claims against members of the oil, automobile, and electric utility industries under the theory that the targeted defendants’ carbon dioxide (“CO2”) emissions contribute to the public nuisance of global warming. To date, these lawsuits have proved uniformly unsuccessful. Four federal district courts have entertained such claims, and all four courts have dismissed for lack of justiciability." (p.1)
Note(s)
Topic
Type
Article
Date
2008
Identifier
ISBN
DOI
Copyright/License
With permission of the license/copyright holder
Embedded videos