October 2020
The County of Maui is the second Hawaiian municipality, after Honolulu, to sue Big Oil companies for lying about climate change damages they knew their products would cause.
Maui Mayor Michael Victorino said the county’s lawsuit, filed against Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, and more than a dozen other fossil fuel companies, aims “to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their decades-long disinformation campaign to keep the public in the dark over the climate crisis.”
“Fossil fuel companies have known their products damage the environment and could have taken steps to warn people and reduce damage,” Mayor Victorino said in a press release accompanying the filing. “Instead, they promoted and marketed their products, all the while protecting their own assets.
- News: Hawaii News Now • The Climate Docket • Drilled News
- Analysis: Make it two dozen: Maui is latest municipality to sue Big Oil for climate damages (2020) • Hawaii Climate Cases Can Proceed in State Court, Ninth Circuit Rules in 5th Straight Defeat for Big Oil (2022) • Honolulu’s climate lawsuit can move forward to trial after court rejects Big Oil arguments (2023)
- Read the Complaint: County of Maui v. Sunoco et al.