California has filed a lawsuit against oil giant ExxonMobil for allegedly engaging in a decades-long "campaign of deception that caused and exacerbated the global plastics pollution crisis."
The announcement of the lawsuit was made by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. As per the complaint filed in the San Francisco County Superior Court, ExxonMobil "has been deceiving Californians for half a century through misleading public statements and slick marketing promising that recycling would address the ever-increasing amount of plastic waste ExxonMobil produces."
