This New Jersey bill wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-driven damage

New Jersey’s legislature is considering charging oil and gas facilities with fees to help fund climate initiatives. It’s not an accident that The Sopranos, the quintessential show about New Jersey, opens with its main character driving past gasoline and oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike.From the outskirts of New York to the Delaware River shoreline across from Philadelphia, New Jersey is home to numerous oil and natural gas facilities.Those facilities would be charged...