Liberal New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio made headlines recently when he announced that the city would be suing five major oil companies for damages sustained during Hurricane Sandy, on the theory that the storms were worse because of those companies’ contribution to climate change.

In Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards and his fellow trial lawyer cronies have borrowed a page from the same playbook. A group of trial lawyers is representing six coastal parishes against the oil and gas industry in 42 absurd lawsuits alleging that drilling and the cutting of canals as far back as 80 years ago are responsible for coastal erosion.