There’s been deep irony in Sacramento this summer, as some normally environmentally oriented state senators deep-sixed what could have been the year’s most important potential new environmental law.

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At issue was whether oil companies could be held liable for damage from future wildfires caused at least in part by climate change. The state Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the measure came just two days after a Louisiana jury held oil giant Chevron liable by for $744.6 million to restore damage to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. The case was the first of many pending against oil companies that have supposedly lied about whether their policies led to land loss along that state’s coast, reaching from the mouth of the Mississippi River.

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