California's Leadership in Climate Change: Will courts hold oil companies accountable for climate change disasters? Los Angeles Times "Chevron accepts the scientific consensus regarding climate change," Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., an attorney for the California-based oil giant, said last ... In response to the raft of lawsuits, BP's chief executive, Bob Dudley, swatted away any analogy to the Big Tobacco lawsuit, in which dozens of state ...   SPH Hosts Climate Change Symposium BU Today McCarthy was the keynote speaker at a daylong SPH symposium called Changing the Climate: How Public Health, Cities, and the Media Can Advance Climate Solutions. The school convened the symposium, which was cohosted with the Pulitzer Center, to bring together thought leaders from public ... US counties get mixed grades in 'State of the Air' pollution report Christian Science Monitor “It's forward thinking, a paradigm shift,” says Dr. Balmes, noting California's hist...