‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial | Montana teen Mica is one of 16 plaintiffs in historic trial, alleging state has violated residents’ rights
The oil companies have been paying her since at least 2007. It's not a new thing, and developing a stable of paid experts was a key step the fossil fuels industry took when they decided to adopt the personnel and tactics of the tobacco-cancer denial machine some decades back.