A thorn in big energy’s side (Image: Northwest Arctic Borough via The Anchorage Daily News/AP/PA)
Editorial: Climate war has a new front: the courtroom
The little guys are suing energy giants for the effects of climate change – could they succeed in changing US legislation where Congress has failed?
THE remote village of Kivalina in Alaska is the unlikely new front in the war on climate change. It’s early days, but the battle could emulate the one that was fought in American courtrooms against the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
In February 2008, the village’s 400 or so inhabitants filed a…
