By Bob Walsh
Exxon-Mobile has filed suit against the formerly great
state of California alleging First Amendment violations created by a new
reporting law. Regular readers will remember I wrote about the new law
which requires petroleum companies who do any business at all in
California to engage in a massive self-reporting system on pollution
caused ANYHWHERE IN THE WORLD by the production, distribution and use of
their products. This includes everything from some guy driving a
pickup truck in Mongolia to somebody driving an airliner in Australia.
The
filing in federal court asserts that the law, taking effect in 2026,
forces the company to "trumpet California's preferred message" about
climate change and to speculate about unknowable future developments.
The 30 page complaint was filed in the U. S. District Court of the
Eastern District of California on Friday.
One of the laws in question was created by SB 253, also known as the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.
The
second was created by SB 261. This mandates that corporations with
revenue of over $500 million must disclose climate-related financial
risks (whatever the fuck those are) and the measures they have taken and
will take to mitigate or adept to those changes. The state
guesstimates this law could effect over 2,500 corporations.
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