California attorney general sues ExxonMobil [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KYMA, KECY/NBC) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta is holding a press conference Monday.

In a press release obtained by NBC News, the press conference is to announce a lawsuit against ExxonMobil “for allegedly engaging in a decades-long campaign of deception that caused and exacerbated the global plastics pollution crisis.”

The press release says the lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco County Superior Court, seeks to compel ExxonMobil to “end its deceptive practices that threaten the environment and the public,” while stating that “Attorney General Bonta also seeks to secure an abatement fund, disgorgement, and civil penalties for the harm inflicted by plastics pollution upon California’s communities and the environment.”

“Plastics are everywhere, from the deepest parts of our oceans, the highest peaks on earth, and even in our bodies, causing irreversible damage—in ways known and unknown—to our environment and potentially our health.

For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to …