California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has filed a first-of-its kind lawsuit aimed at ExxonMobil Corp. — one of the largest producers of petroleum-based polymers — for allegedly deceiving the public about the potential for plastic recycling and creating an environmental blight that has cost the state billions of dollars to clean.
Bonta is seeking to compel the oil giant to “end its deceptive practices.” He is seeking to secure an abatement fund, disgorgement (a legal remedy that requires a party to give up profits or other gains that were obtained illegally or unethically) and civil penalties “for the harm inflicted by plastics pollution upon California’s communities and the environment.”
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