FILE - A roadblock is seen as crews search for a pair of missing children swept away after weekend rains, Monday, July 17, 2023, in Washington Crossing, in Upper Makefield Township, Pa. Bucks County has joined dozens of other local governments around the country, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in accelerating global warming. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
The suit named as defendants BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Philips 66, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group.
Chevron said through its attorney, Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., that "addressing climate change requires a coordinated international policy response, not meritless local litigation over lawful and essential energy production."
API said in response that the industry provides "affordable, reliable energy energy to U.S. consumers" while taking steps over the past two decades to reduce emissions. It said climate change policy is the responsibility of Congress, not local governments and courts.
"This ongoing, coordinated campaign to wage meritless, politicized lawsuits against a foundational American industry and its workers is nothing more than a distraction from important national conversations and an enormous waste of taxpayer resources," Ryan Meyers, the group's senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement.
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In 2021, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit by New York City against five oil companies to recoup damages caused by global warming.
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