Honolulu Sues Petroleum Companies for Climate Change Damages to City

“The lawsuit seeks to hold fossil companies, including Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Phillips 66, accountable for the costs and damages caused by misleadingly promoting and selling products that their own scientists and experts warned could impose “severe” or even “catastrophic” consequences.

“It’s about making sure corporations play by the rules; disclose known problems with their products,” he said. “And when they don’t do that, they are held accountable to cover the cost the rest of society is having to bear.”

Honolulu Sues Petroleum Companies for Climate Change Damages to City

The city’s lawsuit cites the industry’s concealing of science that predicted catastrophic consequences for the continued burning of fossil fuels.