Honolulu is suing major oil and gas companies — including ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and Chevron — to make them pay for the cost of climate damages that the companies long knew their businesses would create and intensify, including rising sea levels, coastal erosion, flooding, supercharged storms, and other extreme weather events.
“Climate change is not just a risk to human health, it risks threatening the fiscal health of our City. This lawsuit stands up to protect Honolulu’s taxpayers by putting the responsibility to pay for climate-related damages back on Big Oil where it belongs. Fossil fuel companies have known for decades that their profits were coming directly at the expense of frontline communities like ours.”
Joey Manahan
Honolulu City Council Budget Chair
City and County of Honolulu
Sunoco, Aloha Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BHP, BP, Marathon, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66
Climate
Public Nuisance, Private Nuisance, Products Liability: Failure to Warn, Trespass
