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73.
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commercial Dungeness crab fisheries would not have been closed as described herein. As ocean
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warming and circulation anomalies continue and domoic acid outbreaks increase in frequency and
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severity, such closures will continue to occur and continue to injure Plaintiff and the west coast
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crab industry.
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74.
Defendants, through their extraction, promotion, marketing, and sale of their fossil
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fuel products, caused a substantial portion of both those emissions and the attendant domoic acid
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outbreaks that forced California and Oregon to close their commercial crab fisheries during each
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of the last three seasons and will compel them to close the fisheries during future seasons.
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75.
As explained above, this analysis considers only the volume of raw material
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actually extracted from the earth by these Defendants. Many of these Defendants actually are
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responsible for far greater volumes of emissions because they also refine, manufacture, produce,
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market, promote, and sell more fossil fuel derivatives than they extract themselves by purchasing
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fossil fuel products extracted by independent third parties.
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76.
In addition, considering the Defendants’ lead role in promoting, marketing, and
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selling their fossil fuels products between 1965 and 2015; their efforts to conceal the hazards of
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those products from consumers; their promotion of their fossil fuel products despite knowing the
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dangers associated with those products; their dogged campaign against regulation of those
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products based on falsehoods, omissions, and deceptions; and their failure to pursue less hazardous
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alternatives available to them, Defendants, individually and together, have substantially and
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measurably contributed to Plaintiff’s domoic acid-related injuries.
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D.
Defendants Went to Great Lengths to Understand the Hazards Associated
With and Knew or Should Have Known of the Dangers Associated with the
Extraction, Promotion, and Sale of Their Fossil Fuel Products.
77.
By 1965, concern about the risks of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
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But for the Blob, caused by Defendants’ actions, the California and Oregon
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reached the highest level of the United States’ scientific community. In that year, President Lyndon
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B. Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee Panel on Environmental Pollution reported that by the
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year 2000, anthropogenic CO2 emissions would “modify the heat balance of the atmosphere to
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such an extent that marked changes in climate . . . could occur,” and that atmospheric warming
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