Puerto Rico Hits Oil Industry With $1 Billion Lawsuit Over ‘Climate Change’ Effects
Puerto Rico is suing the oil industry for at least $1 billion, joining a list of nine states and dozens of municipalities taking legal action against oil companies for their alleged role in producing “climate change”…
Puerto Rico is suing the oil industry for at least $1 billion, joining a list of nine states and dozens of municipalities taking legal action against oil companies for their alleged role in producing “climate change” effects, E&E News reported.
The lawsuit, filed Monday by Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Justice Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, alleges BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and a variety of other Energy giants engaged in climate deception by failing to provide warnings about the environmental risks of fossil fuel use, according to E&E News. The case is the latest in a slew of lawsuits from states, territories, municipalities and individuals related to climate change.
“These companies have known internally for decades that greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuel products would have adverse impacts on the global climate and sea level,” Hernández said in a statement announcing the lawsuit, E&E News reported. “The defendants devised misinformation campaigns to discredit science around the burning of fossil fuels and its contributions to climate change.”
Ten attorneys general — in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — and dozens of municipal or tribal governments in California, Colorado, Hawai`i, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington, and Puerto Rico, have filed cases against Energy