{"id":250758,"date":"2024-05-13T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/michigan-wants-fossil-fuel-companies-to-pay-for-climate-change-damages\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:23:41","slug":"michigan-wants-fossil-fuel-companies-to-pay-for-climate-change-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/michigan-wants-fossil-fuel-companies-to-pay-for-climate-change-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday that she plans to sue fossil fuel companies for knowingly contributing to climate change, harming the state\u2019s economy and ways of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">\u201cIt\u2019s long past time that we step up and hold the fossil fuel companies that are responsible for all these damages accountable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">With this litigation, Michigan would join dozens of local, tribal and state governments that have taken similar steps to try to make the industry pay for climate damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Nessel said the case is an effort to recover some of what Michigan has lost due to climate change, pointing to severe weather events, risks to agriculture and last winter\u2019s short ski season and canceled sled dog&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/michigan-wants-fossil-fuel-companies-to-pay-for-climate-change-damages\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday that she plans to sue fossil fuel companies for knowingly contributing to climate change, harming the state\u2019s economy and ways of life.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s long past time that we step up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":250759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michigan wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/michigan-wants-fossil-fuel-companies-to-pay-for-climate-change-damages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michigan wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. 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