The court’s ruling against TotalEnergies, under a French law passed in 2017, expands a growing front in the global legal fight against climate change. That movement seeks court rulings to hold corporations liable for their emissions and the resulting warming of Earth’s atmosphere. The court ruling gives TotalEnergies six months to report on the emissions from airlines, auto drivers and other customers using the company’s energy products. Corporate responsibilityThe French law requiring this type of reporting came as the result of the 2013 collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people. Among the rubble were clothes from several French companies’ brands.