Friday, May 30, 2025

Oil Companies Are Sued over Death of Woman in 2021 Heat Wave

The daughter of woman who died while driving home from a doctors appointment during a June 2021 heat dome event is suing the big fossil fuel companies for wrongful death. The air conditioner of Juliana Leon's car stopped working and though she drove with the windows down she still became over by the heat and died of hyperthermia, according to the complaint.

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Heartbreaking and necessary. Today Misti Leon filed a lawsuit against seven oil and gas companies for the wrongful death of her mother, Juliana Leon, during the 2021 PNW heatdome. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c ...

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-- Sarah E Myhre PhD (@sarahmyhre.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Lawsuits like this are useful to get certain Inconvenient Truths on the record.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 11:29 AM

This is stupid.

The person responsible for filing this and the attorneys should be banned from ever purchasing anything or taking possession of anything that is available to them by way of petroleum products.

And Snoofy is a -------- idiot who mooches off the government.

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-31 10:28 AM

"This is stupid."

So is your hateful dream of revenge and retribution.

And not any stupider than Trumpy suing CBS for 20 billion dollars over their 1st amendment right to make an editing decision.

Or Trumpy's 10s of thousands of other frivolous lawsuits.

Or Trumpy's attempts to undermine and overthrow a free and fair election.

Or the thousands of other stupid things Trumpy says each day.

And like Trumpy always says (so it must be true!!!):

legal entanglements are "a natural part of doing business" in the U.S.

We have met the enemy and it is us.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-31 12:01 PM

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