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February 22, 2024

Chicago Sues Big Oil over Climate Crisis
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The city of Chicago is suing six oil and gas giants, as well as an
industry trade group, which "funded, conceived, planned, and carried out
a sustained and widespread campaign of denial and disinformation about
the existence of climate change and their products' contribution to it."
Progressive Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson filed the lawsuit Tuesday
against Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, Conoco Phillips, Phillips 66
and the American Petroleum Institute. The suit lays out the climate
crisis impacts faced by Chicago, including more frequent and intense
storms, flooding, droughts, extreme heat waves and shoreline erosion.
Chicago joins eight other states, the District of Columbia and multiple
municipalities across the U.S. that have filed similar lawsuits against
Big Oil over their role in exacerbating the climate crisis.


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