September 2020

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong filed a statewide consumer protection lawsuit against ExxonMobil. The complaint, which is brought under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, argues that Exxon’s “campaign of deception has allowed it to continue to inflict decades of avoidable harm” on Connecticut’s lands, waters, coastlines, infrastructure, fish and wildlife, natural resources and critical ecosystems.

The complaint goes on to argue that despite Exxon belatedly admitting publicly that fossil fuels contribute to climate change, “its decades-long campaign of deception has been so successful that many consumers still do not believe the scientific facts that climate change is real, is caused primarily by fossil fuel combustion, and is having a will have devastating consequences for Connecticut and all of humanity.”