Exxon Mobil is suing California over its first-in-the-nation climate disclosure laws, arguing the requirements seek to embarrass large fossil fuel producers in the hope that they will be “shamed into curbing their emissions.”
Filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the complaint is a sharp rebuke of the carbon emission and climate risk reporting that companies with revenues of more than $500 million must produce as soon as January.
The requirements, the company said, place “disproportionate blame on large companies like ExxonMobil for being large, for the avowed purpose of spurring public opprobrium and policy responses.”
Exxon’s lawsuit asks the court to find that California’s laws violate the First Amendment.
