How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits

Photo caption: Wreckage of an amusement park in Seaside Heights, New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy in 2012. New Jersey is suing oil companies for damages from climate-fueled disasters. Photo credit: Mario Tama / Getty Images. Article by Beth Gardiner. Yale Environment 360 – November 30, 2022.

Carroll Muffett began wondering in 2008 when the world’s biggest oil companies had first understood the science of climate change and their product’s role in causing it. A lawyer then working as a consultant to environmental groups, he started researching the question at night and on weekends, ordering decades-old reports, books, and magazines off Amazon and eBay, or from academic libraries. […]

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