{"id":17948,"date":"2023-09-17T02:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T02:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948"},"modified":"2023-09-17T02:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T02:42:02","slug":"california-sues-oil-giants-says-they-deceived-public-on-climate-change-seeks-funds-for-wildfires-storm-damage-deadly-heat-waves-and-droughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948","title":{"rendered":"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

California is suing Big Oil for deceiving the public on how their fossil fuels contributed to climate change.<\/p>\n

On Friday California filed a civil lawsuit in state Superior Court in San Francisco against BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and their trade group, the American Petroleum Institute.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom blasted the oil companies and blamed them for wildfires, storms, deadly heat waves, and droughts.<\/p>\n

Storms and<\/em> droughts. Makes sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor more than 50 years, Big Oil has been lying to us \u2014 covering up the fact that they\u2019ve long known how dangerous the fossil fuels they produce are for our planet,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cCalifornia taxpayers shouldn\u2019t have to foot the bill for billions of dollars in damages \u2014 wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air, deadly heat waves, record-breaking droughts parching our wells.\u201d<\/p>\n

Excerpt from AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The state of California filed a lawsuit against some of the world\u2019s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n

The civil lawsuit filed in state Superior Court in San Francisco also seeks creation of a fund \u2014 financed by the companies \u2014 to pay for recovery efforts following devastating storms and fires. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement the companies named in the lawsuit \u2014 Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP \u2014 should be held accountable.<\/p>\n

The 135-page complaint argues that the companies have known since at least the 1960s that the burning of fossil fuels would warm the planet and change the climate, but they downplayed the looming threat in public statements and marketing.<\/p>\n

It said the companies\u2019 scientists knew as far back as the 1950s that the climate impacts would be catastrophic, and that there was only a narrow window of time in which communities and governments could respond.<\/p>\n

The post California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California is suing Big Oil for deceiving the public on how their fossil fuels contributed to climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCalifornia Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts - Sasquatch News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts - Sasquatch News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"California is suing Big Oil for deceiving the public on how their fossil fuels contributed to climate change.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sasquatch News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-17T02:42:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-17T02:42:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948\"},\"wordCount\":371,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948\",\"name\":\"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts - Sasquatch News Online\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-17T02:42:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?p=17948#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Sasquatch News Online\",\"description\":\"Simple News Aggregator for Tall Furry Mammals\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts - Sasquatch News Online","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts - Sasquatch News Online","og_description":"California is suing Big Oil for deceiving the public on how their fossil fuels contributed to climate change.","og_url":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948","og_site_name":"Sasquatch News Online","article_published_time":"2023-09-17T02:42:02+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts","datePublished":"2023-09-17T02:42:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948"},"wordCount":371,"commentCount":0,"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948","url":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948","name":"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts - Sasquatch News Online","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-09-17T02:42:02+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17948#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"California Sues Oil Giants, Says They Deceived Public on Climate Change, Seeks Funds for Wildfires, Storm Damage, Deadly Heat Waves and Droughts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/","name":"Sasquatch News Online","description":"Simple News Aggregator for Tall Furry Mammals","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}