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Oil companies ARE responsible for the worlds environmental problems.
Make them pay
This is a war they're not going to lose, they're just trying to win every chance they get. The fossil fuel industry makes a trillion dollars of profit a year. They could buy every politician so many times over.
It's a war they will definitely lose, either by time or by collective will. I hope it's the latter, because if it's the former, nobody wins.
TLDR; if the EPA bites the dust, every state lawsuit against polluters can go through.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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