This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The daughter of a woman who was killed by extreme heat during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome has filed a first of its kind lawsuit against major oil companies claiming they should be held responsible for her death. The civil lawsuit , filed on May 29 in King County Superior Court in Seattle, is the first...
