Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a news conference about a new effort to expand the state’s gun violence restraining order program on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024 in San Diego, California. In the span of just over a year, California Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a pair of lawsuits on energy producers. In the first, he claimed it’s time to make oil companies pay for “engaging in a decades-long campaign of deception and creating statewide climate change-related harms.
While ignoring the impact on workers – increasing companies’ costs reduces income growth for employees – Bonta recognizes that the lawsuits will only “disincentivize” fossil fuel use by imposing a significant share of these costs on consumers, whose financial stability will be rattled. Further, due to energy’s ubiquitous use, prices would also increase for a wide range of goods such from cell phones to groceries, as well as services, particularly heating and cooling our homes.
In the most recent lawsuit, Bonta claims ExxonMobil deceived Californians for nearly 50 years “by promising that recycling could and would solve the ever-growing plastic waste crisis,” even though it knew that it could never handle “more than a tiny fraction of the plastic waste it produces.”
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