City Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change
January 10 2018 - 1:28PM
Dow Jones News
By Corinne Ramey
New York City filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies,
asking for billions of dollars to protect the city from climate
change.
"In this litigation, the City seeks to shift the costs of
protecting the City from climate change impacts back onto the
companies that have done nearly all they could to create this
existential threat," said the complaint, which was filed in U.S.
District Court in Manhattan.
The complaint said that "the very climate disruption and
injuries that Defendants' scientists and consultants warned them
about decades ago have now arrived."
The city filed the suit against oil companies BP PLC, Chevron
Corp., ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell
PLC.
A Shell spokesman said the company believes "climate change is a
complex societal challenge that should be addressed through sound
government policy and cultural change to drive low-carbon choices
for businesses and consumers, not by the courts."
The other four companies didn't immediately respond to requests
for comment.
San Francisco and Oakland filed similar suits in September
against the same five companies.
Write to Corinne Ramey at Corinne.Ramey@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 10, 2018 13:13 ET (18:13 GMT)
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