“The climate crisis is, after all, a fossil fuel crisis,” Newsom said on Sunday at the opening ceremony of New York City’s Climate Week. “They continue to play us for fools. I’ve had enough and I’m sick and tired of this.”
The lawsuit claims that for the past six decades, Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell Plc, BP Plc, ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp. have misled the public by downplaying fossil fuel dangers despite knowing that their products were producing the planet-warming gases contributing to climate change. The Democratic governor also said he intends to sign two climate disclosure bills passed by the state Legislature last week that would force many of the world’s biggest publicly traded corporations to make their carbon emissions and climate-related financial risks public.“Climate change is a global problem that requires a coordinated international policy response, not piecemeal litigation for the benefit of lawyers and politicians,” a Chevron spokesperson said.