California’s decision to target the root of plastic pollution instead of downstream companies sets its ExxonMobil lawsuit apart from a swirl of other environmental cases, but several attorneys say the strategy could prove difficult to litigate.
The lawsuit, filed Sept. 23 in San Francisco County Superior Court, accused the energy giant of promoting all plastics as recyclable when few were. This caused consumers to buy more single-use plastic products than they would have otherwise, causing and worsening a plastic pollution crisis, the complaint said.
California’s case against
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