Exxon Mobil Loses Bid to Stop States’ Climate Change Probes March 15, 2022 By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.’s effort to stop Massachusetts and New York from probing whether...
Exxon Weighs Next Move After Judge Rules It Must Face Massachusetts Climate Suit June 24, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A Massachusetts state judge has rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by state Attorney General Maura Healey...
Big Oil May Face More Climate Lawsuits After Shell Ruling, Say Lawyers, Activists May 28, 2021 By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals LONDON – A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming...
Shell Loses Landmark Climate Case in Ruling with Global Implications for Big Oil May 27, 2021 By Bart H. Meijer, Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla THE HAGUE/LONDON – A Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to drastically deepen planned greenhouse gas emission cuts on Wednesday,...
Impending Dutch Court Decision to Test Shell’s Responsibility for Climate Change May 25, 2021 By Hugo Miller and Laura Hurst A Dutch court verdict against Royal Dutch Shell Plc will determine whether it has a legal responsibility for climate change,...
Exxon Argues Massachusetts Climate Fraud Lawsuit Punishes It for Opinion December 17, 2020 By Erik Larson Exxon Mobil Corp. told a judge that a fraud lawsuit filed by Massachusetts last year amounts to illegal punishment for...
Exxon Beats New York Claim of Climate Change Accounting Fraud December 10, 2019 By Erik Larson Exxon Mobil Corp. won a closely watched securities-fraud trial that delved into its internal accounting for the financial risks of...
States’ Climate Change Litigation Could Be Useful Tool Against Big Oil: Opinion November 5, 2019 By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg Opinion A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco...
How Exxon’s Climate Change Trial Ended Up Being About Numbers October 25, 2019 By Erik Larson Climate change protesters outside a Manhattan courthouse this week expressed overwhelming support for New York’s landmark securities fraud lawsuit against...
Exxon, New York AG Face Off Over Climate Change Accounting October 23, 2019 By Brendan Pierson and Sebastien Malo A lawyer for New York’s attorney general on Tuesday told a state judge Exxon Mobil Corp. used two sets of...