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Alaskans Sue Oil, Coal Firms for "Conspiracy" to Hide Truth About Warming

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By Ross Gelbspan
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Lawyers for the Alaska Native coastal village of Kivalina, which is being forced to relocate because of flooding caused by the changing Arctic climate, filed suit in federal court arguing that 5 oil companies, 14 electric utilities and the countryโ€™s largest coal company were responsible for the villageโ€™sย woes.

The suit is the latest effort to hold companies like BP America, Chevron, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and the Southern Company responsible for the impact of global warmingโ€ฆIn an unusual move, those five companies and three other defendants โ€” the Exxon Mobil Corporation, American Electric Power and the Conoco Phillips Company โ€” are also accused ofย conspiracy.

โ€œThere has been a long campaign by power, coal and oil companies to mislead the public about the science of global warming,โ€ the suitย says

By Ross Gelbspan

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