California sues oil giants for downplaying climate crisis risks

The lawsuit seeks to establish an abatement fund to pay for future climate-related damages in California, which has been increasingly affected by wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events.

The civil case was filed in a superior court in San Francisco against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and Chevron, which is headquartered in California. / Photo: AP

It follows numerous other cases brought by US cities, counties and states against fossil fuel interests over the impact of climate crisis as well as alleged disinformation campaigns spanning decades. "Oil and gas company executives have known for decades that reliance on fossil fuels would cause these catastrophic results, but they suppressed that information from the public and policymakers by actively pushing out disinformation on the topic," the 135-page complaint read.

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