**gee, what could have started happening around 1820?**

Connecticut's climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil moves forward as judge allows case to proceed.

Several years after Connecticut's attorney general sued ExxonMobil over its communications and actions on global warming, some have wondered if the oil company should be held accountable for climate change, but this week [an idiot] state judge is allowing the lawsuit to proceed.
Attorney General William Tong sued Exxon Mobil in September 2020 under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, seeking $5,000 for every "willful" violation of the law if determined to have occurred, and additional amounts to pay for costs to the state in mitigating the impact of weather extremes, floods, rising sea levels and other environmental threats. Tong's office has yet to cite an aggregate total in penalties sought from ExxonMobil.
“We are pleased with this decision and look forward to proceeding to discovery," Tong stated in an email forwarded by an office spokesperson Friday. "Our case against ExxonMobil is simple and strong. We are going to expose their lies and hold them accountable for their decades of deception and harm to our climate.”

Governments don’t create wealth, they merely seize it from the producers and distribute it to their friends, with a suitable dividend reserved for themselves. Subdivisions of those governments such as Connecticut’s attorneys generals are just looting tools to accomplish this. Tong is a disgrace to humanity, but then, so was Blumenthal — still is, in fact.