Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has filed suit in state court against Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute for allegedly “deceiving Mainers for decades about the role of their fossil fuel products in causing climate change.”
The state seeks to hold the oil firms accountable for failing to warn Mainers and concealing their knowledge about the “consequences of the increasing use of fossil fuels on Maine’s peopl