Exxon Asks Judge to Scrap Sierra Club Plastics Recycling Suit

ExxonMobil Corp. asked a federal judge to dismiss environmental nonprofits’ lawsuit over plastics recycling claims, calling the case “a real stretch” and an attack on the company’s First Amendment rights.

Exxon did not advise consumers to dispose of or use its product—plastics polymers—in a hazardous manner, so the California environmental group plaintiffs weren’t able to allege an “actionable theory of nuisance liability,” the company said in a motion to dismiss with prejudice filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

“Recycling cannot be deemed a hazardous use when federal, state, and local policymakers encourage it,” ...