As the Supreme Court considers an appeal of Boulder’s climate case, a high-profile lawyer involved with the case made a shocking admission about the true aims of the lawsuit.  

David Bookbinder, who still advises the Boulder, Colorado case that helped launch the current wave of climate lawsuits, admitted this week on a Federalist Society panel these cases aren’t actually about “accountability” at all:  

“Tort liability is an indirect carbon tax. You sue an oil company, an oil company is liable. The oil company then passes that liability on to the people who are buying its products. In some sense, it is the most efficient way. The people who buy those products are now going to be paying for the cost imposed by those products. …  [This is] somewhat of a convoluted way to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.”

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