ExxonMobil, a fossil fuel company that conspicuously touts a commitment to fighting plastic pollution, is being sued by the State of California as of Monday for allegedly misleading the public about the effectiveness of the various anti-pollution tactics that they advocate.
In the first lawsuit ever to be filed against a large oil company for spreading this type of misinformation, California Attorney General Rob Bonta accused the petroleum behemoth of "a decades-long campaign of deception that caused and exacerbated the global plastics pollution crisis.” Even though ExxonMobil frequently claims that plastic recycling can solve the growing plastic pollution problem, Bona claims that ExxonMobil knew these assertions were false and yet knowingly deceived the public.
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