Anne Arundel County is suing major oil and gas companies — including ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell — and the American Petroleum Institute to hold them accountable for lying to the public about their products’ role in climate change and to recover costs associated with sea level rise, flooding, and other local climate damages that the companies knew their products would cause.
“There’s a lot of evidence that the leaders of fossil fuel companies were aware of the damage their companies were doing for many years … So, it’s my obligation as representative of the residents of this very vulnerable coastal land that we live on to not only plan for the financing of resilience infrastructure but also to hold these companies accountable for their actions.”
Steuart Pittman
Anne Arundel County Executive
Anne Arundel County
Marathon, Speedway, Hess Corp., CNX Resources, Consol, American Petroleum Institute (API), Shell, Citgo, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, BP, Crown Central, Rosemore Inc., Chevron, Exxon Mobil
Climate
Public Nuisance, Private Nuisance, Civil Conspiracy, Products Liability: Failure to Warn, Consumer Protection, Trespass
