Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price

Publication Info: Guardian News & Media Limited

Date of Publication: June 30

Year of Publication: 2021

Publication City: London, UK

Publisher: The Guardian

Author(s): Chris McGreal

After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes.

An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold the oil and gas industry to account for the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels – and covering up what they knew along the way.

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