California sues Chevron, Exxon, Shell, others for public deception on climate change

Gas prices are displayed at an Exxon gas station on July 05, 2022 in San Francisco, California. The state of California on Friday filed one of the most significant cases against major oil companies for their role in perpetuating climate change. The 135-page legal complaint, filed through the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta in San Francisco superior court, alleges that five big oil companies along with the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization that represents them, orchestrated a decades-long disinformation campaign to hide the correlation between fossil fuel...