A coalition of commercial fishers has filed a lawsuit in California that holds one fossil fuel firms, including ExxonMobil , Chevron , ExxonMobil and BP , accountable for losses to their industry resulting from climate change. The lawsuit refers to the closing of crab fishing waters within this year due to algae blooms in the warming Pacific . The case, which seeks damages on behalf of crab fishers and communities in California and Oregon , alleges that such closures will continue due to global warming. "These injuries derive from rising ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean generally and periodic extreme marine heat waves—the results of anthropogenic ocean warming caused by the foreseeable and intended use of defendants' products," the suit says. The lawsuit is unusual in climate litigation, in that it pits one industry against another.
A coalition of commercial fishers has filed a lawsuit in California that holds one fossil fuel firms, including ExxonMobil , Chevron , ExxonMobil and BP , accountable for losses to their industry resulting from climate change. The lawsuit refers to the closing of crab fishing waters within this year due to algae blooms in the warming Pacific . The case, which seeks damages on behalf of crab fishers and communities in California and Oregon , alleges that such closures will continue due to global warming. The lawsuit is unusual in climate litigation, in that it pits one industry against another.