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On the recordApril 30, 2024
If we have an industry that knowingly, and that's the point, knowingly understood that carbon emissions were causing climate change, knowingly understood that climate change will bring devastating destruction to the lives of billions of people, what are the legal grounds that we can hold them accountable for?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders questions accountability for industries causing climate change.

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