In a lawsuit, Bucks County officials claim 'big oil' companies lied for decades about oil's impact on the climate.
Officials in Bucks County, on Monday, unveiled a lawsuit that targets, what they called, 'titans of the fossil fuel industry' who, allegedly, deceived the public over their product's role in climate changeBucks County officials, on Monday, announced a sweeping lawsuit targeting, what county leaders called,"titans of the fossil fuel industry,' alleging the companies intentionally deceived the public about the role of oil in accelerating the climate crisis.
As detailed in a statement on the lawsuit, officials allege that the companies named in the court documents -- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Philips 66, Shell and API -- have"known for decades, with startling precision, that their products would bring about climate change and destabilization."
“These companies have known since at least the 1950s that their ways of doing business were having calamitous effects on our planet, and rather than change what they were doing or raise the alarm, they lied to all of us,” said Bucks County Commissioner Gene DiGirolamo, in a statement. “The taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for these companies and their greed.”
In a statement, officials said the lawsuit -- through which the county is seeking a financial amount for damages, though it doesn't explicitly specify a total amount sought -- seeks to hold these"big oil" companies accountable for the damage that oil has done to the environment.
Contacted Monday, most of the companies targeted in the lawsuit either declined to comment or had not immediately replied to NBC10."The record of the past two decades demonstrates that the industry has achieved its goal of providing affordable, reliable American energy to U.S. consumers while substantially reducing emissions and our environmental footprint," API's senior vice president and general counsel, Ryan Meyers, said in a statement.
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