She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.

Fresh out of law school in 2022, Rachel Rothschild wrote a memo laying out the legal justification for a new strategy to fight climate change: States could force oil and gas companies to pay for the damage caused by extreme floods and wildfires that are made worse by the use of their products.Ms. Rothschild’s work was foundational. It provided the basis for the nation’s first “climate superfund” laws, which were…