Pay Up, Suckers! Fossil Fuel Industry Evokes Anger For Audacity To Seek Taxpayer Money To Protect Itself From The Climate Crisis It Created
By Jon Queally Common Dreams (8/23/18) Climate justice advocates and green groups are calling foul on the fossil fuel industry and their GOP backers in Congress over an effort to secure tens of millions of public taxpayer dollars to fund a giant offshore “spine” of seawalls and other barriers to protect Gulf Coast refineries from the threat of sea-level rise and increasingly powerful storms that scientists have explained are the direct result of the very global warming and climate impacts these interests continue to deny even exist. Like other oceanfront mitigation projects, the Associated Press reported late Wednesday night, “…this one would protect…
