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Oil company allies say climate lawsuits were shopped around
The oil industry is hitting back after being sued for climate damages by California cities and counties.
The Manufacturers' Accountability Project (MAP), an oil industry supporter, demanded a swath of records from the municipalities that sued more than 20 oil companies. Citing a state public records law, MAP asked for paperwork, cellphone records, reports, memos, payments and other documents containing oil company names. They're also asking for city contracts with law firms working on contingency, a form of payment that awards a percent of what the firm is able to win.
MAP, an arm of the National Association of Manufacturers, said it wants to expose details of the eight lawsuits against oil companies filed by California municipalities.
"We really believe strongly in transparency. We think that taxpayers have a right to know what's behind these lawsuits," said Lindsey de la Torre, executive director of MAP. She added that "really what this whole effort is about is trial attorneys and politicians raising their public profile at the expense of manufacturers."
Imperial Beach, San Mateo, Marin County, Richmond, Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz County sued two dozen or more fossil fuel companies and trade associations in separate cases. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is pending on whether to uphold U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria's order sending those suits back to state court from federal court.
In other cases, San Francisco and Oakland have sued the five biggest oil companies: Chevron Corp., BP PLC, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC. Those are with Judge William Alsup in the District Court for the Northern District of California.
MAP said it's getting involved because oil manufacturers are among those targeted by climate-related lawsuits. De la Torre would not say whether MAP gets funding from oil companies.
Asked what the group hopes to gain with its efforts, she said that "we really believe that these cases don't belong in the courts. We believe they belong with policymakers who can look at them from a broad spectrum."
City officials called it a bullying tactic.
"Instead of owning up to the liabilities and culpabilities of issues of climate change, they're carrying out a very specific and targeted campaign of me and others. That's very clear," said Serge Dedina, mayor of Imperial Beach. "This is part of the fossil fuel industry playbook."
Exxon Mobil also filed a court petition in Texas asking for the right to depose 16 people: Dedina and other California officials, including mayors, city managers and city attorneys. The filing is seen as a signal that Exxon might countersue. The company is based in Texas, whose laws allow companies headquartered there to seek protection against lawsuits.
It comes in the wake of a separate legal defeat for Exxon. The company filed suit to stop Massachusetts and New York attorneys general from investigating whether the oil giant knew about climate risks and didn't disclose them to shareholders. Valerie Caproni, a federal judge in Manhattan, said Exxon's request to halt the investigations was based on "extremely thin allegations and speculative inferences."
MAP struck back against that, too. In a blog, it said the investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) "is part of that expensive patchwork that politicians and plaintiffs' attorneys are perpetuating. We need less litigation, not more."
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