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Charleston sues Big Oil for climate change adaptation costs

by AP/Report for America
| September 10, 2020 12:03 AM

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Charleston is now the first city in the American South to sue major oil companies in an attempt to hold them accountable for the “daunting” costs of climate change, city officials announced Wednesday.

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