ExxonKnews
May 5, 2025
Less than a day after the Trump administration filed a lawsuit aiming to stop Hawaiʻi from taking oil companies to court for their role in the climate crisis, the state last week became the 10th in the country to do just that.
Hawaiʻi’s lawsuit accuses ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and other oil companies of a “decades-long campaign of deception” and ongoing greenwashing campaigns designed to bury the link between their fossil fuel operations and climate change.
The case comes nearly two years after one of the deadliest wildfires in modern U.S. history killed more than 100 people and caused $5.5 billion in damage in Lāhainā, on the island of Maui, incinerating homes and sacred sites in what was once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom. In 2020, Maui County and the City and County of Honolulu filed separate lawsuits against many of the same companies to recover the local costs of rebuilding and adapting to climate disasters, including wildfires, heat waves, floods, rising seas, and public health threats.
