# How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/how-an-early-oil-industry-study-became-key-in-climate-lawsuits/
- Published: 2022-12-03T09:15:59-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at e360.yale.edu