Last week, a
The suit alleges that Exxon violated the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act by misleading investors and consumers about the company's business practices, its failure to disclose climate change risks and its products' impacts on climate change, and its greenwashing campaigns.
In the ruling, which denied Exxon's anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss the case, the court disagreed with Exxon's arguments that the claims at the center of the lawsuit constituted protected speech. In finding the statements were not protected, the court emphasized that "climate change indisputably is a topic that has attracted government attention."
This is abundantly true following the recent slew of interest into Exxon and other companies' statements and practices related to climate change. Most recently, this past April,
Reacting to the decision,
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