Exxon, Paul Weiss Weather Ups and Downs on Climate Change
The oil company and its lawyers got some good news and some bad news this week in what may be a rising sea of litigation tied to climate change.
September 14, 2017 at 04:00 PM
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A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Sept. 13 that Exxon Mobil Corp., represented by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, must face claims by environmentalists that storm surge, flooding and heavy rains could cause the oil company's terminal near Boston to discharge pollutants.
But the judge also partly sided with Exxon Mobil, finding that plaintiffs had no standing to sue over future risks tied to rising sea levels and intensifying storm risks that were not “imminent.”
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf granted in part and denied in part Exxon Mobil's motion to dismiss claims filed in 2016 by The Conservation Law Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group.
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