A federal judge in Texas has dismissed Exxon Mobil’s bombshell defamation lawsuit against environmental groups that it had accused of trying to sabotage its recycling business in collusion with an Australian mining magnate.
But the judge allowed a parallel case against California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, to proceed.
The dispute began in the fall of 2024 when Mr. Bonta filed a lawsuit against Exxon after a two-year investigation. He said his office had concluded the company had engaged in a “decades-long campaign of deception” that helped create a global plastics-pollution crisis.
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