<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I found this to be a short, rewarding read. It made me laugh, and gave me hope. This woman is nothing like me. And she’s way more effective at addressing climate change than I am. —dawn<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The New York Times <<a href="mailto:nytdirect@nytimes.com" class="">nytdirect@nytimes.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Climate Forward: One lawsuit that explains the climate crisis</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">July 19, 2023 at 10:24:01 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:hewitt@earth-maker.com" class="">hewitt@earth-maker.com</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:nytdirect@nytimes.com" class="">nytdirect@nytimes.com</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class=""><table width="100%" align="left" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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We’re bringing you a special edition of the newsletter to tell you about a consequential lawsuit in Puerto Rico and the remarkable lawyer behind it. Hope you enjoy.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;" class=""><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/07/11/multimedia/00cli-puertorico-sims-gcjk/00cli-puertorico-sims-gcjk-jumbo.jpg" width="600" class="css-zh06no" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 600px; padding-top: 10px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="css-1ukdnh3" width="100%" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left; width: 600px; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 15px; line-height: 14px;"><span class=""><span class="css-atnqj9" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Missy Sims, a lawyer with Milberg, one of the biggest class-action firms in the world, at a cemetery in Lares, P.R.</span><span class="css-hpkdsj" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: georgia, serif; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Erin Schaff/The New York Times</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><h1 style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 30px; line-height: 37.5px; font-family: georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 12px;" class="">One lawsuit that explains the climate crisis</h1></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="45" valign="middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 9px 15px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 45px;" class=""><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/jqjHQBfjM7kPf5hyeaIt8Q~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmmneFP0TDaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvZGF2aWQtZ2VsbGVzP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU0JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NsaW1fMjAyMzA3MTkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTc5MDcmbmw9Y2xpbWF0ZS1mb3J3YXJkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9OTI1ODYyODAmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMzk3MTQmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFlZjFjYjFlZWQ1ZmY1OGUxYTA0Y2MzMWNkNGYyZWRhVwNueXRCCmS2hfK3ZMgCG6FSFmhld2l0dEBlYXJ0aC1tYWtlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" class=""><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/07/24/multimedia/author-david-gelles/author-david-gelles-blogSmallThumb-v7.png" alt="Author Headshot" width="45" height="45" style="border: 0px; height: 45px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 45px; border-radius: 100%;" class=""></a></td><td valign="middle" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 3px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/jqjHQBfjM7kPf5hyeaIt8Q~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmmneFP0TDaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvZGF2aWQtZ2VsbGVzP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU0JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NsaW1fMjAyMzA3MTkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTc5MDcmbmw9Y2xpbWF0ZS1mb3J3YXJkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9OTI1ODYyODAmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMzk3MTQmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFlZjFjYjFlZWQ1ZmY1OGUxYTA0Y2MzMWNkNGYyZWRhVwNueXRCCmS2hfK3ZMgCG6FSFmhld2l0dEBlYXJ0aC1tYWtlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" class="css-1ckldco" style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">David Gelles</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">A new lawsuit in Puerto Rico explains a lot about the battle over climate change. It may even hold some of the world’s worst polluters accountable.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">I explain the details in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/b-YD_kqSkHbhP91pXYlVgg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmmneFP0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNy8xOS9jbGltYXRlL2NsaW1hdGUtbGF3c3VpdC1wdWVydG8tcmljby5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU0JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NsaW1fMjAyMzA3MTkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTc5MDcmbmw9Y2xpbWF0ZS1mb3J3YXJkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9OTI1ODYyODAmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMzk3MTQmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFlZjFjYjFlZWQ1ZmY1OGUxYTA0Y2MzMWNkNGYyZWRhVwNueXRCCmS2hfK3ZMgCG6FSFmhld2l0dEBlYXJ0aC1tYWtlci5jb21YBAAAAAM~" class="css-5nb5nb" style="color: rgb(40, 110, 208); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">my new story about the case</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— and the remarkably colorful lawyer at the center of it.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">Here are the basics: A group of Puerto Rican municipalities is suing some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world, including Exxon, Chevron and Shell, arguing that they are partly to blame for thousands of deaths and more than $100 billion worth of damages caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">It’s an audacious claim, and it’s too early to tell how far the case will go.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">But the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/8iy6H_Dg-h_Zux8nl37b_A~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmmneFP0TXaHR0cHM6Ly9jbGltYXRlaW50ZWdyaXR5Lm9yZy91cGxvYWRzL21lZGlhL1BSX2NvbXBsYWludC5wZGY_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTQmZW1jPWVkaXRfY2xpbV8yMDIzMDcxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD05NzkwNyZubD1jbGltYXRlLWZvcndhcmQmcmVnaV9pZD05MjU4NjI4MCZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEzOTcxNCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWVmMWNiMWVlZDVmZjU4ZTFhMDRjYzMxY2Q0ZjJlZGFXA255dEIKZLaF8rdkyAIboVIWaGV3aXR0QGVhcnRoLW1ha2VyLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~" class="css-5nb5nb" style="color: rgb(40, 110, 208); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">meticulous 247-page lawsuit</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>manages to tell the story of the climate crisis: how the rampant burning of fossil fuels heated the planet, how oil and gas companies caused much of the damage but downplayed the dangers, and how we are all now suffering the consequences in the form of more extreme weather.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">Legal experts say that if the companies are found liable, the potential damages could run into the hundreds of billions of dollars.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">“That’s why the companies are so afraid of these cases,” said Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, a nonprofit organization that is helping garner support for the Puerto Rico case. “If they have to pay for the damages they caused, the costs get out of control really fast.”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 27.5px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;" class="">‘The Holy Spirit is my co-counsel’</span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">About that lawyer.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">Missy Sims is a one-of-a-kind character. She has 2.2 million followers on her TikTok account, where she posts viral videos of her miniature Jack Russell terrier. She’s usually wearing Armani, Gucci or Fendi. She seems to subsist mostly on ice cream. She listens to the Bible on her iPhone. And for more than a decade, she’s been suing oil companies.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">Her earlier cases were focused on environmental pollution. As a lawyer in central Illinois, she figured out how to use anti-littering laws and other municipal codes to take on Exxon, Shell and ConocoPhillips for not cleaning up hazardous industrial sites.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">In 2017, Sims joined Milberg, one of the biggest class-action law firms in the world, which sent her to Puerto Rico to build a case against opioid manufacturers. While she was working on that, Hurricane Maria hit.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">In my story I describe what happened next:</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p class="css-4r7ord" style="display: block; margin: 0px 50px 15px; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">As she drove across the island to meet with local officials about the opioid crisis, it occurred to her that Puerto Ricans were now suffering at the hands of another set of corporations. Fossil fuel companies had warmed the planet and misled the public about global warming, making billions along the way. It wasn’t so different from what had happened in DePue and Roxana, she thought.</p><p class="css-4r7ord" style="display: block; margin: 0px 50px 15px; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Then, she said, God told her to sue Exxon again.</p><p class="css-4r7ord" style="display: block; margin: 0px 50px 15px; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">“The Holy Spirit tells me what to do,” she said. “This bomb that went off here was climate change related. We just need to prove it.”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 27.5px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;" class="">Just the beginning</span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">Last year, Sims filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of 16 Puerto Rican municipalities. It is part of a wave of litigation targeting fossil fuel companies over climate issues.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">But this one is unique.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">The suit is the first to claim that the planet-warming emissions produced by the defendants were directly responsible for the damage from a specific weather event.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">It is also the first to argue that the fossil fuel companies engaged in a decades-long conspiracy to downplay the effects of global warming — and that by doing so, they violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, originally passed to crack down on organized crime.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">RICO charges open up a serious new legal front for the fossil fuel companies, and they can result in exceptionally high damages. Not coincidentally, RICO has also been used successfully against tobacco companies and opioid manufacturers.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;" class=""><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><p style="display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; font-family: georgia, serif;" class="">Exxon and ConocoPhillips declined to comment. 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