Here’s a quote from a recent letter (PDF) signed by 4 senators:
- Bernie Sanders
- Jeffery A Merkley
- Elizabeth Warren
- Edward J. Markey
The letter urges Merrick Garland to purse litigation agains the fossil fuel industry:
As early as 1959, Edward Teller warned the American Petroleum Institute that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels would raise global temperatures. In 1975, Shell-backed research concluded that increasing atmospheric carbon concentrations could cause global temperature increases that would drive “major climatic changes” and compared the dangers of burning fossil fuels to nuclear waste.