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Inside the Push to Put Climate Change Warnings on Gas Pumps

The Bay Area wants to apply the tobacco-labeling approach to fuel.
A label concept from a similar proposal in Canada.Our Horizon

A few years ago, Jack Fleck was reading Tropic of Chaos, an investigation into how climate change fuels political discord and violence, when he began to feel discordant.

"It talked about the impunity of oil companies, that they can do anything and there are no consequences for them," says Fleck, a 67-year-old retired transportation engineer in Oakland.