This month, California State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow Californians, private insurance companies, and the state’s insurer of last resort to sue oil and gas companies for wildfire damages.

The new bill takes the premise of California’s climate lawsuit – which is already on shaky legal ground, as similar suits are facing a string of defeats in state courtrooms across the country – and pushes it in an even more absurd direction.

Of course, what the legislation is truly about is not insurers, wildfires, or even helping Californians; it is another way for the state to seek damages in the form of oil companies’ profits, a favorite game of California lawmakers.

Read the full story at EIDClimate.com.

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