ExxonKnews
November 14, 2024
This is Part 1 of a series in which we’ll examine what holding the fossil fuel industry accountable looks like under the incoming Trump administration. For this first piece, we’re taking a look at what’s next for the climate fight against Big Oil in the courts.
In a campaign plan released last year, President-elect Trump pledged that his administration would “stop the wave of frivolous litigation from environmental extremists.”
That’s a reference to the dozens of state and local governments fighting to put Exxon and other oil companies on trial for spreading disinformation about their products’ harm to the climate. The first of those lawsuits were filed during the first Trump administration, which opposed the cases in court, and now many are finally moving forward in state courts after prevailing against Big Oil’s repeated attempts to derail them.
