"Five Reasons to Pass the Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act (SB 1161)",

This year there is an opportunity for the California Legislature to help redress this long-standing deception by passing the Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016 (SB 1161). This legislation...would give explicit authority to public prosecutors in California to take legal action against businesses that have deceived the public about the scientific evidence of climate change over the past 30 years...Why should the California legislature pass this bill? Here are my top five reasons: 1) The fossil fuel industry has long known about the risks of climate change...2) The fossil fuel industry has spent decades deceiving the public about the science of climate change...3) There are real costs to fossil fuel industry deception...4) Deceiving the public is morally wrong...5) A movement is building. California can stay at the forefront...Wherever these investigations lead, it is important that the California legislature—and by extension, the people of California—signal their intent to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its many decades of spreading disinformation...[Refers to BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell]