<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Yorkers</a> may have the chance to sue big oil companies and other fossil fuel producers under new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a> <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S9612">legislation</a> proposed by a Brooklyn Democrat, which emulates a Texas law against abortion providers.</p>
<p>State Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) introduced the legislation last week that would target fossil fuel companies with annual revenues over $1 billion demonstrating &#8220;negligence&#8221; while &#8220;storing, transporting, refining, importing, exporting, producing, manufacturing&#8221; products such as petroleum and natural gas.</p>
<p>&#8220;The effects of climate change in New York — especially in communities like mine — are undeniable,&#8221; Myrie told <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/ny-state-of-politics/2022/12/12/texas-anti-abortion-law-becomes-model-for-climate-bill-in-new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media</a>. &#8220;We are quickly running out of time to reverse this climate emergency, and my legislation gives ordinary New Yorkers a chance to hold bad actors in the fossil fuel industry accountable for decades of negligence and denial.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noted in the legislation, as reported by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/proposed-nys-bill-to-let-new-yorkers-sue-polluters-over-climate-change-damages/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, U.S.-based companies like ExxonMobile, Chevron, and 90 other foreign and domestic enterprises allegedly produce 63% of carbon dioxide and methane emissions into the atmosphere.</p>
<p>&#8220;The costs of inaction are so high — more homes destroyed by worsening floods, more lives ruined by chronic asthma and extreme heat that threatens us all. It&#8217;s time for regular New Yorkers to say enough is enough,&#8221; Myrie told the Post.</p>
<p>Myrie proposed the bill after a 2021 Texas law, which local media <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/ny-state-of-politics/2022/12/12/texas-anti-abortion-law-becomes-model-for-climate-bill-in-new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> allows any person to make civil claims for damages against abortion providers or anyone who assists with a woman obtaining an abortion after a pregnancy enters its sixth week.</p>
<p>He said the concept could &#8220;save our planet and protect our lives.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, Ken Pokalsky, vice president of the Business Council of New York, told the Post the law would benefit lawyers as it&#8217;s &#8220;designed for class action suits.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pokalsky said it would unfairly punish companies despite a state climate law that requires the state to reduce 85% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while New York adopts more renewable energy sources like wind and solar.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to eliminate the use [of fossil fuel] anytime in the immediate future. We&#8217;re dependent on it — but you&#8217;re gonna say the person who provides this essential product is going to be financially liable for it?&#8221; Pokalsky said. &#8220;What&#8217;s the logic of that?&#8221;</p>
<p>Ryan McCall of Tully Rinckey, a national law firm, told the New York Post that the law could put courts in a vulnerable position when personal problems are caused by pollution with alleged negligence of the fossil fuel companies.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be similar, in my opinion, to any other personal injury action, where we&#8217;re gonna need to get medical experts that are going to be able to say, as a result of this specific emission, that this type of injury happened to you,&#8221; McCall said. &#8220;You would begin to see a flood of litigation when it comes to these types of environmental cases like we haven&#8217;t seen before.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCall added the bill could face formidable challenges from companies that object to state lawmakers dictating what they do within their company despite &#8220;plausible ways to make polluters pay for demonstrable damage caused by their use of fossil fuels.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I definitely think you&#8217;re going to see federal challenges come into this bill. I think that&#8217;s going to be highly likely, but I do definitely think this bill has a lot of merit when it comes to allowing private actors to bring litigation,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Myrie, however, told <a href="https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/ny-state-of-politics/2022/12/12/texas-anti-abortion-law-becomes-model-for-climate-bill-in-new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media</a> that the fossil fuel industry &#8220;will be held accountable for the damage&#8221; caused to New York&#8217;s environment.</p>
<p>If lawmakers pass the legislation, the bill will advance to the desk of Governor Kathy Hochul, who supports the state&#8217;s move toward a so-called green economy.</p>

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