OCTOBER 19, 2022
New Jersey officials filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against five oil and gas companies, alleging that the corporations knew about the impact of fossil fuels on climate change but failed to warn the public.
More than two dozen other cities, counties, and states also have filed claims against Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute trade group.
Several California cities were the first to sue the oil and gas companies in 2017. Since then, many other cities and states have joined the pending litigation, including Rhode Island, Minnesota, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Delaware.
CBS News reported in April that the lawsuits are modeled after the "Big Tobacco" cases in the 1990s, in which cigarette companies shelled out billions of dollars to states for tobacco-related illnesses.
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