California Nonprofits

A group of California nonprofits — the Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, and Baykeeper — are suing ExxonMobil to hold the world’s largest producer of polymers used in single-use plastics accountable for its role in the plastic pollution crisis. The complaint argues that Exxon created the crisis by “promoting the fiction that single-use plastic waste can be safely, technically, and economically disposed by landfilling, recycling, or incineration” while in reality “each results in harmful pollution.”