When Myles Allen first proposed suing fossil fuel companies in 2003, the outlook for climate action in the political sphere was bleak. The United States, responsible for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, still had no major carbon regulations in place. Two years into the Bush administration and its oil-industry cronyism, any meaningful […]![](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nybooks/~4/n2kFy4ULegQ)