California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
www.nytimes.com California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
Launching one of the most prominent climate lawsuits in the nation, the state claims Exxon, Shell, BP and others misled the public and seeks creation of a special fund to pay for recovery.
For context, the big oil firms did a series of internal studies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s which accurately anticipated the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming that would result, but went and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead of looking for ways to move the world off fossil fuels.