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Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today

Some of the biggest oil and gas companies are embroiled in legal disputes with cities, states and children over the industry's role in global warming.

By David Hasemyer

Richmond, California, home to a Chevron refinery near San Francisco Bay, in one of several cities suing fossil fuel companies over climate change. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
San Francisco faces increasing coastal risks as sea level rises. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Emails Reveal Justice Dept. Working Closely with Big Oil to Oppose Climate Lawsuits

By David Hasemyer

Pipeline construction. Credit: Robert Nicklesberg/Getty Images

2020: A Year of Pipeline Court Fights, with One Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court

By Phil McKenna

Rex Tillerson was Exxon's CEO from 2006 until his retirement shortly before becoming U.S. secretary of state in the Trump administration in 2017. He testified at the New York trial. Credit: Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images

Judge Clears Exxon in Investor Fraud Case Over Climate Risk Disclosure

By David Hasemyer, Nicholas Kusnetz

A coal terminal in Utah. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images

Oakland’s War Over a Coal Export Terminal Plays Out in Court

By JUDY FAHYS

Protesters outside court on the opening day of the Exxon trial in 2019. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress via Getty Images

Did Exxon Mislead Investors About Climate Risks? It’s Now Up to a Judge to Decide.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Rex Tillerson, Exxon's former CEO, leaves court after testifying. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Exxon's Trial Nears Its End: What Does the State Have to Prove to Win Its Case?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Rex Tillerson was Exxon's CEO from 2006 to 2017, when President Donald Trump named him U.S. secretary of state. He had worked for Exxon his entire career. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Exxon investor meeting. Credit: Brian Harkin/Getty Images

Key Question as Exxon Climate Trial Begins: What Did Investors Believe?

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Plaintiffs in the children's climate lawsuit filed Oct. 25, 2019, in Canada. Credit: Robin Loznak

Kids Sue Canada for Contributing to Climate Change

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After a four-year investigation, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed suit against Exxon on Oct. 24, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors with its disclosures and the public through its advertising. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Massachusetts Sues Exxon Over Climate Change, Accusing Oil Giant of Fraud

By David Hasemyer

Exxon signs. Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images

Exxon’s Climate Fraud Trial Opens to a Packed New York Courtroom

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Exxon and Oil Sands Go on Trial in New York Climate Fraud Case

By Nicholas Kusnetz, By Nicholas Kusnetz 

Pipeline construction sign. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Courts Question Pipeline Builders’ Use of Eminent Domain to Take Land

By Phil McKenna

Greenpeace protesters shutdown the Houston Ship Channel for several hours on Sept. 12 by hanging from a bridge. Credit: Greenpeace

Texas Charges Oil Port Protesters Under New Fossil Fuel Protection Law

By Nicholas Kusnetz

New York Attorney General Letitia James. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Exxon Accused of Pressuring Witnesses in Climate Fraud Case

By David Hasemyer, Nicholas Kusnetz

A Baltimore street partially collapsed during a week of extreme rainfall in 2014, sending cars and roadway sliding down an embankment. Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Why Cities Suing Over Climate Change Want the Fight in State Court, Not Federal

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Mayors LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans and Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Credit: U.S. Conference of Mayors

Hundreds of U.S. Mayors Urge Congress: Put a Price on Carbon

By Marianne Lavelle

Exxon station. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

In Exxon Climate Fraud Case, Judge Rejects Defense Tactic that Attacked the Prosecutor

By ICN STAFF

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