Can Americans Seek Justice for Losses from Climate Change?

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?”