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    Michael Hiltzik: The oil companies lied to us about climate change. California should sue them into the ground

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2023 5 minutes
    Hundreds of young Angelenos rally in downtown Los Angeles in unity with a Global Climate Strike- a day of worldwide protest against climate inaction- on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023.

    The oil companies want you to see California's newly filed lawsuit over their decades of deceit about global warming as a "hypocritical ... Hollywood-and-foreign-billionaire-funded" effort to "starve the state of energy and hamper the economy."

    Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?

    The targets of the lawsuit, filed Friday in San Francisco County Superior Court, are five major oil companies and their subsidiaries. "From extreme heat to drought and water shortages, the climate crisis they have caused is undeniable," Attorney General Rob Bonta said after the filing. "It is time they pay to abate the harm they have caused."

    The state's lawsuit joins others filed by at least 18 municipalities, seven states and the District from New York to the West Coast in recent years in state and federal courts.

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