State prosecutors call major oil companies “substantially responsible for causing and accelerating climate change.' Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said it’s time they pay “to abate the harm they have caused.”
California is no stranger to fighting climate change with legal battles. But late last week, state officials announced a truly heavyweight match., alleging their involvement in “a decades-long campaign of deception and creating statewide climate change-related harms in California.
The suit notes API received a report on environmental pollutants from the Stanford Research Institute in 1968, which stated: “Significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000, and ... there seems to be no doubt that the potential damage to our environment could be severe.”
In response to that and other scientific evidence linking fossil fuels to global warming, Big Oil orchestrated disinformation campaigns, the state alleges, “to plant doubt about the reality of climate change in an effort to maintain consumer demand for their fossil fuel products and their large profits.
In a statement, API Senior Vice President and General Counsel Ryan Meyers called the state’s complaint “a distraction … and an enormous waste of California taxpayer resources.”Sahagun notes that a “growing number of high-profile cases in state court helped pave the way” for this major legal action from Bonta, including the $246-billion settlement with the tobacco industry in 1998 and aAs for how much money state officials are seeking from Big Oil, that’s to be determined for now.
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