Climate Cases Put Big Oil’s Behemoth Trade Group in Bull’s-Eye
“State and local governments taking Big Oil to court over climate change have a new target: the American Petroleum Institute—an approach that could pay off for plaintiffs and create headaches for the industry’s biggest trade group, lawyers say,” reports Ellen M. Gilmer in Bloomberg Law’s Environment & Energy Report.
“Recent lawsuits from Delaware, Minnesota, and Hoboken, N.J., name API as a defendant, saying the group should be on the hook alongside oil companies for allegedly misleading the public about fossil fuels’ climate impacts.”