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California Counties Use Big Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics To Go After Big Oil

Oil pumps operate near Lost Hills, Calif. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)
 
LOS ANGELES — In a legal assault similar to the one that won multibillion-dollar awards from Big Tobacco, two Bay Area counties and a coastal city blamed Chevron, ExxonMobil and three dozen other oil, gas and coal companies for climate change and rising sea levels that threaten communities on the California coast.

Tobacco Companies Again Ordered to Disclose Harm from Cigarettes

Big Tobacco companies like Phillip Morris STILL have to make public statements about smoking’s harmful effects. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said so in an 11-page court decision.  She also slammed the industry’s fraudulent tactics to promote smoking and called the companies’ request to rewrite the public disclosures “ridiculous.”