Fossil Fuel Companies to Pay

Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Photo by Dave Hoefler on Unsplash.

Vermont has enacted a statute to require fossil fuel companies to pay the cost of recovery from the impacts of climate change and the cost of mitigating future impacts.

For details: https://www.sierraclub.org/vermont/blog/2024/06/sierra-club-celebrates-major-victory-first-ever-climate-superfund-law-enacted 

For context: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2024/03/14/state-climate-superfund-bills-what-you-need-to-know/