Climate Tort Backers Downplay Link To New York’s Exxon Fraud Case

Correction Appended After a trial that appeared to show flaws in New York’s novel climate securities fraud case against ExxonMobil, supporters of several local governments’ climate nuisance suits against oil companies say that a potential adverse ruling for New York would have no effect on the tort cases because they are based on different legal claims. “I think regardless of what happens with the securities fraud case there is no relevance to the climate tort theories because of the starkly...