After Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental groups filed a lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of polluting landfills and waterways with plastics and lying about it, the oil giant has struck back with a suit in its home state of Texas, accusing Bonta and his allies of orchestrating a “smear campaign.”
“This is a case about a state office holder’s abuse of the public trust,” lawyers for ExxonMobil wrote in a lawsuit filed Monday in a Texas federal court. They said Bonta, organizations such as the Sierra Club and SF Baykeeper, and alleged “foreign interests” were motivated by “politics, publicity, and private gain” in trying to thwart the oil company’s efforts to recycle the plastics it produces.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle