Harassment against civil society oil companies It shows increasing awareness of the damage these companies have caused and continue to do to public health and the future of the global climate. The state of California in the United States made a presentation. Lawsuit against the world’s five largest oil companiesHe claimed they caused “billions of dollars in damage” and “misled people and downplayed the situation.” climate risks fossil fuels, local officials reported.
The civil lawsuit was filed in San Francisco Superior Court against California-based Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Conoco Phillips and Chevron, and the American Petroleum Institute (API).
These companies and their partners “intentionally Risks posed by fossil fuels to the population“Even though they have known since the 1950s that their products could cause significant global warming,” the text underlines.
Revealed by New York Times and approved by the state governor, The lawsuit joins many others filed by cities, counties, and states across the United States He is against organizations linked to fossil fuels because of their environmental impact, the AFP agency reported.
“Big Oil has been lying to us for over 50 yearsIt obscures the fact that they have long known how dangerous the fossil fuels they produce are to our planet,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
Oil companies defend themselves
An API spokesman came to the defense of the oil industry and criticized the government’s initiative. Climate policy “should be debated and adopted by Congress, not the judicial system.”
“The execution of this permanent and coordinated campaign Political and unfounded demands “This attack on a critical American industry and its workers diverts the discussion from other issues that truly matter to the country and is a huge waste of California taxpayer resources,” API spokeswoman Andrea Woods said.
A Shell spokesman said the company accepted “action is needed now to tackle climate change” but said the courtroom was “not the right place” for this.
With this judicial action California calls for fund to address future damage from climate change We are victims of wildfires, floods and other extreme events in this state. global warming.
“Executives at oil and gas companies have known for decades that dependence on fossil fuels would lead to these disastrous consequences, but they deprived the public and policymakers of this knowledge. Actively promoting misinformation on the subject” the lawsuit states.
since you started Wave of complaints against oil and gas companiesNearly six years ago, the industry tried to avoid legal action, but last May the United States Supreme Court rejected those challenges in two cases, allowing the legal action to proceed.
These demands Follow the model of those successfully presented against tobacco giants or the pharmaceutical industry in the case of opiate proliferation.
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