United Press International: An Alaskan village is suing 24 major energy firms including ExxonMobil and BP over charges that greenhouse gases they emit threaten its existence. The village of Kivalina, home to Inupiat Eskimos and located in the Arctic Circle, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco alleging the village faced imminent destruction from global warming because of greenhouse gas emissions by the firms. The lawsuit says climate change …