When Will The Climate Killers See Their Day In Court?

After an unprecedented wave of deaths from climate extremes, advocates want courts to find Big Oil guilty for murder.

Floods, heat waves, wildfires and other climate extremes are becoming a way of life for millions around the world — and tragically a way of death. After a historic, record-breaking flood in France killed her mother this spring, a daughter wants to hold oil companies criminally responsible for her death, joining seven other plaintiffs in a lawsuit.

On this episode of Lever Time, senior investigative reporter Lois Parshley examines a growing global movement of advocates and legal scholars trying to convince courts that fossil fuel companies should be charged with homicide after they knowingly caused climate change. 

To read an unedited transcript of this episode, click here.