New York City sues Shell, ExxonMobil, and other oil majors over climate change
Jan 11th, 2018
by John Donovan.



Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally. Credit: NASA/GISS
By Chris Mooney and Dino Grandoni January 10 2018
The New York City government is suing the world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies, seeking to hold them responsible for present and future damages to the city from climate change. The suit, filed Tuesday against BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, claims the companies together produced 11 percent of all of global warming gases through the oil and gas products they have sold over the years. It also charges that the companies and the industry of which they are part have known for some time about the consequences but sought to obscure them. FULL ARTICLE
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