As Europe swelters, Paris judges say consumers aren’t to blame — TotalEnergies is

A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris.

The judgment does not halt the company's fossil-fuel expansion.

But it does something the industry has spent half a century resisting: it holds TotalEnergies legally responsible not just for the emissions from its operations, but for the emissions produced when the oil and gas it sells are ultimately burned.