shadow banning and attacking the news media and stand your ground we've got to talk but first little rhody takes on big oil i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t.v. america. more than a dozen cities and towns across the usa some in coastal communities as big as the big apple and as small as tiny imperial beach california have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies blaming them for the effects of climate change now a state is suing my state the ocean state rhode island governor geno rimando says that given that we have a president in the white house who denies climate change and has pulled out of the paris accord it puts a greater burden on states to take action and naming exxon mobil chevron b.p. and royal dutch shell among fourteen defendants our state attorney general did just that charging that big oil knew for decades that greenhouse gas pollution from their operations and their products were having a significant and detrimental impact on the earth's climate how detrimental let's ask dr riess holter an eco stress physiologist specializing in earth's life