Lawsuits seeking to hold the nation’s biggest oil companies accountable for global warming and extreme climate events—and academics looking to influence how judges rule on those cases—are bankrolled by a common donor, the real estate developer and environmental activist Dan A. Emmett. The little-known California millionaire is funding both the law firm filing novel suits against oil companies and Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, according to emails obtained by the

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