2023-09-16 08:48:57
California is suing 5 of the world’s biggest oil companies for downplaying the climate risks of fossil fuels and causing millions of dollars in damage.
California on Friday filed lawsuits once morest five of the world’s largest oil companies, alleging they caused millions of dollars in damage and misled public opinion by minimizing the risks for the climate due to fossil fuels, reported the New York Times.
This legal action follows many others initiated by cities, American counties and states once morest interests linked to fossil fuels because of their environmental impact, once morest a backdrop of accusations of leading disinformation campaigns for decades.
“They were aware that their products might lead to significant global warming.”
Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP…
The civil complaint was filed in San Francisco Superior Court once morest Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips et Chevron, which is headquartered in California. The American Petroleum Institute is also targeted, adds the New York Times.
These companies and their associates “intentionally minimized the risks posed by fossil fuels to the population, even though they were aware that their products might lead to significant global warming.” this since the 1950sunderlines the complaint, according to the daily.
Representatives of the targeted entities did not immediately respond to requests for reaction.
Creating a fund
California calls for the creation of a fund to cope with future damage caused by climate change in this state, victim of Forest fires, floods and other extreme phenomena fueled by global warming.
Since the start of the wave of procedures of this type once morest oil and gas companies around six years ago, the sector sought to counter the legal attacks by playing on the procedure.
But this effort suffered a major setback last May when the American Supreme Court has in two cases refused to consider an appeal, thereby leaving complaints to take their course in court.
The prosecutions are inspired by those successfully brought once morest the tobacco giants, or once morest the pharmaceutical industry in the case of the proliferation of opioids
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