As climate lawsuits falter around the country, left-wing litigators are exploring a risible new legal strategy—trying energy companies and their executives for homicide and wrongful death, a climate change Nuremburg.          

Left-wing climate groups are mobilizing around a precedent-setting wrongful death lawsuit in Washington State, which contends that energy companies are directly responsible for the tragic death of a 65-year-old woman during a heat wave. And just last month, a left-wing climate litigator told senators that there is a sufficient legal basis for putting energy executives on trial for killing millions of people. 

The wrongful death lawsuit, Leon v. Exxon Mobil, was filed in late May. Like many climate lawfare cases, it poses as an innocuous case, a local controversy invoking familiar legal theories to obtain a just judgment.

This case is not innocuous. It seeks a first-of-its-kind verdict holding seven energy companies responsible for a tragic fatality and has all the hallmarks of a coordinated lawfare attack. 

The complaint filing was accompanied by a major press offensive, with favorable coverage in outlets like The New York........

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