California seeks to have oil companies forfeit profits from false advertising about climate change

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The California attorney general recently filed an amendment to the lawsuit against five of the world's largest oil companies, seeking to force them to forfeit profits made while denying the link between the fossil fuel industry and climate change—including their own role in the global crisis—through deceptive advertising.

 

The request for “return of profits” was added to a lawsuit filed in September 2023 against Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute (the industry’s leading trade association). Filed in a San Francisco state court, the lawsuit alleges that the energy giants have caused tens of billions of dollars in damages by misleading the public.

 

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