Climate Superfunds to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Their Damage
April 27, 2024
State “Superfunds” can require the fossil fuel industry to pay for cleaning up climate change disasters.
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My blog is meant to plant seeds of thought for surviving and thriving sustainably on Mother Earth.
I aim to offer new blog posts at least once a week, perhaps more often if news or ideas must be shared more urgently. You will also find the blog on my Linda Mary Wagner Facebook page. I am writing these blog posts myself the old-fashioned way – with the help of research, but without the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI), also known in mid-2023 as Large Language Models (LLMs).
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