The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is suing major oil and gas companies — including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total — to hold them accountable for deceiving the public about their products’ role in the climate crisis and to make them pay for associated damages.
Thirty-seven municipalities in Puerto Rico and the City of San Juan are separately suing Big Oil companies in federal court, arguing that the industry’s coordinated climate deception violates racketeering laws and fueled the deadly Hurricane Maria in 2017
“These companies have known internally for decades that greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuel products would have adverse impacts on global climate and sea levels. However, they did not truthfully warn Puerto Rican consumers about the consequences of using and burning fossil fuels on the Island, as well as their impact on the environment. It is time for them to mitigate the damage they have caused to Puerto Rico and for Puerto Ricans not to be the ones to pay the bill.”
Domingo Emanuelli Hernández
Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell, Stations Managers of Puerto Rico, Total
Climate
Negligence, Public Nuisance, Products Liability: Failure to Warn, Consumer Protection
