Connecticut Attorney General William Tong filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday alleging deception over climate change impacts, rehashing the same, unfounded “Exxon Knew” claims that were unsuccessfully pushed in the failed New York Attorney General’s case against the company. The state’s decision isn’t surprising,...
On Friday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving Massachusetts investors and consumers about climate change-related risks. Most notably, the attorney general dropped one of the two claims of investor deception, which was largely copied...
U.S. District Judge William Young issued an opinion today on his March decision to remand Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil to state court. While some environmental activists touted today’s issuance of Young’s opinion as “another loss in court for Big Oil” (despite...
New York and New Jersey’s recent decision to block the Northeast Supply Enhancement project could put into jeopardy millions of homes which will require natural gas for heating during the 2021 winter season. The planned $1 billion pipeline would have brought an additional 400 million...
A federal district court in Massachusetts remanded Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil back to state court today after a hearing over the proper jurisdiction for the case. The move reinforced the parallels between Massachusetts’ case and the lawsuit brought by the New...
While Pennsylvanians continue to prosper thanks to growing natural gas production, their neighbors to the north in New York are meeting a much different fate, despite shared access to the Marcellus Shale. In the midst of the Great Recession, Pennsylvania experienced job and wage growth...
On January 27, the New York attorney general filed a motion opposing Energy Policy Advocates’ (EPA) and Robert Schilling’s motion to intervene in the attorney general’s “ill-conceived” securities fraud lawsuit against ExxonMobil. New York lost their case in a resounding defeat in December. EPA, a public interest law firm, and Schilling,...
A new motion to intervene filed in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil attempts to unseal documents that could pull back the curtain on “machinations” between the attorney general and Matt Pawa, a climate activist and plaintiffs’ attorney who has met with several...
Well, that’s all she wrote, folks! A month after losing what was once called “the trial of the century,” the New York Attorney General has chosen not to appeal New York Supreme Court Justice Barry R. Ostrager’s ruling that found – despite the attorney general’s...
The New York Times claims in its latest article on methane emissions in the Permian Basin to have found a smoking gun on leaks from oil and natural gas facilities. In reality, it’s just a steaming exhaust vent. Times reporters spent a few hours doing...
On Tuesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager dealt a devastating blow to the “Exxon Knew” campaign that spells bad news for the activists pursuing climate litigation in Colorado. The New York attorney general’s (NYAG) office attempted to take on ExxonMobil with multiple legal...
After four years, three different legal theories, four million documents, hundreds of hours of depositions, 11 embarrassing days of trial for the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and a month long wait, the verdict is in: ExxonMobil did not deceive or mislead investors over climate...