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• Multnomah County’s lawsuit, filed in 2023 and amended in 2024 to add new defendants, is more than 200 pages long

• Multnomah County’s lawsuit names companies including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, and NW Natural, as well as industry lobbyists and the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

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• when the committee invited board members of these companies to come in today and explain their pledges, they declined to appear on the date we requested.

• Perhaps worried about their deception being exposed, the executives and board members of these fossil fuel companies snubbed members of Congress at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on February 8, 2022.

• these companies "have spent millions to advertise these plans [to combat climate change] and greenwash their images."

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• The energy giant is challenging a November 2020 judgment in favor of community members claiming a leak from a company pipeline damaged their land and waterways.

• A Nigerian court will hear Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s appeal to overturn an almost $2 billion award against the company for allegedly spilling oil in the West African country.

• Shell and the NNPC deny that spills occurred on the alleged dates and say the claim against them is “unsubstantiated, vague and exaggerated,” according to the ruling.

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• 否认 — Exxon

  "These lawsuits have no merit and do nothing to advance meaningful efforts that address climate change," said Exxon spokesman Casey Norton.

• 否认 — Shell

  Shell is "disappointed" by the suit and believes climate change requires "inclusive action from all business sectors, including ours," said spokeswoman Anna Arata.

• 否认 — American Petroleum Institute

  The industry provides affordable energy "while substantially reducing emissions," said Paul Afonso, API's chief legal officer, adding that the suit is "meritless."

• 否认 — ExxonMobil

  “These lawsuits have no merit and do nothing to advance meaningful efforts that address climate change,” Casey Norton, a spokesperson for ExxonMobil, said in an emailed response to the new lawsuit.

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• New York City has filed a lawsuit charging some of the world’s biggest oil companies with systematically and intentionally deceiving New Yorkers about the dangers posed by their products.

• We’re specifically targeting Exxon, Shell, BP and the American Petroleum Institute, which is the trade group for Big Oil.

• The lawsuit said Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell and industry group the American Petroleum Institute "have systematically and intentionally misled consumers" through fuel sales at branded stations as "cleaner" and "emissions-reducing" while not disclosing climate impacts.

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• Environmental and community groups argue that blasting causes irreversible damage to the marine environment.

• The news that Shell plans to conduct a large-scale offshore seismic survey for gas and oil deposits along the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast has drawn criticism from environmental groups and animal rights activists

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• A South African court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell Plc can proceed with a seismic survey offshore the East Coast, after dismissing a legal application by activist groups.

• The assertion of irreparable harm to the marine environment was “speculative at best,” High Court Judge Avinash Govindjee said in the decision broadcast online.

• Greenpeace was among organizations that filed an urgent court interdict this week to block the activity, used in the search for oil and gas resources, claiming it’s linked to decreased sightings of marine life and lower catch rates for commercial fishing.

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• 持续披露 — Shell

  Royal Dutch Shell will accelerate its carbon emissions cuts, taking “bold but measured” steps in the transition to cleaner energy

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• The oil and gas giant still expects to appeal the verdict and believes it has been unjustly singled out, Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said in a statement posted on LinkedIn.

• Royal Dutch Shell will accelerate its carbon emissions cuts, taking “bold but measured” steps in the transition to cleaner energy, following a Dutch court ruling last month that said the company’s climate plans weren’t sufficient.

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• The City of Annapolis is suing 26 oil and gas companies for what it calls the costs and consequences of climate change.

• The city filed the lawsuit Monday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. It names some of the biggest fossil fuel companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell.

• The companies worked to deceive people of the danger, hiding their knowledge and engaging in an intentional campaign to mislead the public about the science, proving the growing danger posed by fossil fuels.

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• Uniper and BASF's Wintershall unit, Anglo-Dutch company Shell, Austria's OMV and Engie.

• WARSAW: Poland's anti-monopoly watchdog said on Wednesday it had fined Russia's Gazprom more than 29 billion zlotys ($7.6 billion) for building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline without its approval.

• The UOKiK watchdog also said it had imposed a 234 million zloty fine on five other firms involved in financing $11 billion project set to double Russia's gas export capacity via the

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• 否认 — Shell

  Shell said in a statement that the matter was still subject to legal proceedings in Nigeria and that it remained their position “that no payment was due.”

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• Judge Jason Coppel on Thursday overturned an attempt to carry over a 2010 ruling by a Nigerian court to the UK, saying that those proceedings were unfair because Shell was denied an opportunity to present a defense.

• Thursday’s judgment sets aside the registration, preventing its enforcement in the UK

• They claimed that an oil spill by Shell had made their water sources unfit for human consumption.

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• Royal Dutch Shell won a court ruling preventing environmental protesters from boarding unmanned oil installations in the North Sea.

• A judge in Edinburgh, Scotland, said that the protesters had no right to enter the installations, and are now banned from going within a 500-meter (1,640-feet) safety zone around the platforms.

• But Greenpeace opposed the company’s plan saying the platform “legs” contain oily sediments that would eventually leak into the sea.