Fossil Companies Face $50B Lawsuit Over 2021 Heat Dome Deaths

Jun 25

During the heat dome, climate pollution “caused dramatic rises in global temperature, drought, and the drying of regional soil,” the Multnomah County release states. “When those pollution-caused conditions combined with a dense high-pressure system that hovered over the Pacific Northwest, they converted the region’s typically mild climate into functionally that of a convection oven.”