The City of Santa Cruz is suing 32 oil and gas companies — including ExxonMobil, Shell, and Chevron — to hold the companies accountable for deceiving the public about their products’ role in climate change and make them pay for associated damages, including droughts, wildfires, and rising seas.
“Now is the time for cities and towns across the country to tell big oil and gas enough is enough. Making the taxpaying residents of coastal communities like ours bear the costs of rising sea levels is simply not acceptable.”
David Terrazas
Santa Cruz Mayor
City of Santa Cruz
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
