San Mateo County is suing 32 fossil fuel companies — including ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell — to hold them accountable for climate deception and make them pay for damages they knowingly caused, including increased flooding, sea level rise, and coastal erosion.
“Instead of working to reduce the use and combustion of fossil fuel products, lower the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, minimize the damage associated with continued high use and combustion of such products, and ease the transition to a lower carbon economy, Defendants concealed the dangers, sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns to promote the ever-increasing use of their products at ever greater volumes.”
County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp. et al
County of San Mateo
Anadarko, Apache Corp., BP, Chevron, Citgo, ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy, Encana, ENI, Exxon Mobil, Hess Corp., Marathon, Occidental, Phillips 66, Repsol, Shell, Total
Climate
Negligence, Public Nuisance, Private Nuisance, Products Liability: Failure to Warn, Trespass, Products Liability: Design Defect
