Honolulu files suit against fossil fuel corporations over mounting costs of climate change

The City and County of Honolulu filed a lawsuit today against a long list of oil corporations in state Circuit Court, seeking damages for the mounting costs of dealing with climate change.

In doing so, Honolulu joins more than a dozen other cities and jurisdictions, including San Francisco, New York, and Baltimore, Md.

“This case filed this morning is about infrastructure and it’s about the damages and costs associated with climate change to our city,” said Josh Stanbro, the city’s chief resilience officer, at a news conference this morning outside of the courthouse. “We have seen over a dozen cities and counties file complaints about the costs they are unjustly having to bear around climate change and its impacts due to the information that’s been withheld over time by the fossil fuel corporations.”

Stanbro said similar to the tobacco industry and pharmaceutical companies, oil corporations withheld information from the public while continuing to sell dangerous products, and that this suit was about holding them accountable.

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