Mother Jones
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Vermont joins Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York in a multistate effort to hold Big Oil accountable for climate change damage wrought by climate change.
Bills on the docket in all four states demand that oil companies pay states millions for such impacts by funding, as Vermont’s proposal outlines.
The American Petroleum Institute represents some 600 fossil fuel companies, did not respond to a request for comment.
Vermont is attempting to pass climate legislation modeled after Superfund.
Vermont is using a no fault scheme, which means the state wouldn’t have to prove negligence to make companies pay.
The liability is strict: Companies at every step of the process, from drilling and production to the distribution and transportation of fossil fuels, would have to pay up.
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