Just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey showed his appreciation for the industry that supplies about half of his state’s residents with the fuel to warm their houses in winter – a larger share than any other state – and about 41 percent of the state’s electricity generation by filing a climate lawsuit that seeks to pin the blame of global climate change on a handful of American energy companies. The move comes less than a month after an election where the American people overwhelmingly rejected policies that have led to an increase in domestic energy costs.

The lawsuit follows a Maine municipality’s rejection of a similar lawsuit proposal. After being pitched by the Rockefeller-backed Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), Democratic Bar Harbor town council members scrapped the idea, correctly observing that that litigation would be “almost like we’re suing ourselves,” and that “the ultimate payers will be the consumer.”

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