LOS ANGELES — In a legal assault similar to the one that won multibillion-dollar awards from Big Tobacco, two Bay Area counties and a coastal city blamed Chevron, ExxonMobil and three dozen other oil, gas and coal companies for climate change and rising sea levels that threaten communities on the California coast. In separate lawsuits in
California Counties Use Big Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics To Go After Big Oil
The lawsuit alleges oil companies created a public nuisance by hiding for nearly 50 years that fossil fuel production was heating and damaging the earth.
