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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-05T08:55:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
  "tags": [
    "Fossil Fuels",
    "Justice & Health",
    "Politics",
    "Climate Change",
    "Climate Change Superfund Act",
    "Climate lawsuits",
    "Climate superfund",
    "Climate Superfund Acts",
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  "textContent": "RUTLAND, Vt.—Eighteen years after the first “climate tort” lawsuit was filed, no U.S. plaintiff has collected damages for the harms of global warming. Now, Vermont’s different legal strategy to make fossil fuel companies pay is facing its first real test. On Monday, the state defended its “climate superfund” law before the U.S. District Court of […]",
  "title": "As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due"
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