America’s civil justice system is the great equalizer for the average citizen. Time and again, individuals have held powerful corporations, wealthy special interests and failed government watchdogs accountable in a court of law for endangering the public. Think big tobacco and cancer, pharmaceutical giants and opioids, major carmakers and defective vehicles, just to name a few. Now some ask, “Can we hold wrongdoers accountable for the worsening death and destruction caused by man-made climate change?”

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