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Advocates urge murder prosecution charges against Big Oil for heat wave deaths

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Advocates urge murder prosecution charges against Big Oil for heat wave deaths

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. · 3 days ago

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400 people died in an Arizona heat wave last summer. The nonprofit Public Citizen says this constitutes murder

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Wasn’t saying it applies, just that it’s required for murder (1st degree anyway) as the headline spoke. You’re probably righter than me, though.

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