In a move that will boost the spirits of trial lawyers and climate activists the world over, a branch of the United Nations-affiliated World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer [IACR] has classified “automotive gasoline and some oxygenated gasoline additives” as a Group 1 “carcinogenic” compound.
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With regulatory actions against fossil fuels in the name of combating climate change losing steam, the research agency’s designation promises to open a new line of attack for green energy advocates, this one in the courtroom.
“Earlier IACR evaluations of the active ingredient in the pesticide Roundup (glyphosate), the active ingredient in the pharmaceutical drug Actos (pioglitazone), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and benzene either spurred or rekindled personal injury litigation surrounding those compounds,” notes a recent analysis by the Washington Legal Foundation.
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Once a substance has been listed by the research agency as a carcinogen, it is fair game for personal injury litigants. The agency’s findings on gasoline, a fossil fuel long targeted for its alleged role in climate change, will be no exception.
