{"id":1501,"date":"2024-07-10T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2024-07-07T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:27:55","slug":"should-big-oil-be-charged-with-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/should-big-oil-be-charged-with-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Big Oil be Charged with Crimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil lawsuits against big oil companies have been ramping up all over the\u00a0 world recently because of their polluting ways, but new surveys show that a rapidly growing number of likely voters want criminal charges brought against them as well. If the companies know their pollution is killing people, and they don\u2019t do anything about it, shouldn\u2019t they be charged\u00a0 with reckless or negligent homicide?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Majority of U.S. Voters Support Climate Litigation Against Big Oil, Poll Finds<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/climate-litigation-big-oil-american-voters-poll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/climate-litigation-big-oil-american-voters-poll.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780262543743\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil lawsuits against big oil companies have been ramping up all over the\u00a0 world recently because of their polluting ways, but new surveys show that a rapidly growing number of likely voters want criminal charges brought against them as well. If the companies know their pollution is killing people, and they don\u2019t do anything about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/should-big-oil-be-charged-with-crimes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Should Big Oil be Charged with Crimes?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,55,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}