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Amy Coney Barrett: “Whereas these emissions are causing climate change that are creating all of the exact same harms that your…”

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'That Would Not Be Okay?': Amy Coney Barrett Gives Lawyer Hypothetical About Clean Air Act

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… state providing a tort remedy for conduct that took place elsewhere and cause harm in state. So even if Colorado says whereas these emissions are harming the residents of Colorado, Whereas these emissions are causing climate change that are creating all of the exact same harms that your suit alleges, that would not be okay? I don't think so. And again, the same thing can happen through the tort suit, though it isn't the same thing. All the tort suit is doing is making them. (00:55–01:04)

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Asserts that emissions causing climate change create harms similar to those alleged in a legal suit.

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