A Manhattan federal judge questioned the de Blasio administration’s temerity in suing oil a🐷nd gas companies for ruining the planet — when the city keeps using their products in its cars.
“The firehouses all have trucks. The Sanitation Department has trucks. If you open the door and go out to Foley Square, you’re going to se🍷e five police cars,” Judge John Keenan said at a court hearing Wednesday.
“Does the city have clean hands?” the judge asked.
Judge Keenan made the comments during arguments about whether the city’s lawsuit against the world’s largest oil companies — including BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil and Royal 🔥Dutch Shell𒆙 — should be allowed to move forward.
The city sued the companies in January claiming that they should be held responsible for the costs associated with climate change because they have known t🌼hat their products couldꦬ hurt coastal cities like New York.
The companies argued Wednesday that the lawsuit should be dismissed because climate change is an issue for the legislature — not t🍸he judiciary.
“Global warming is a very important issue,” Chevron lawyer Theodore Boutrousꦡ said. “Lawsuits are not the way to deal with this.”