In 2020, Honolulu officials had sued eight oil and gas companies over the steep costs of abating damages from extreme weather
of sowing doubt about climate science. Another suit was filed by Maui county, where fires among the deadliest in US history have been blazing; that case was at one point consolidated with Honolulu’s.
“If the truth had been known about climate change, if the truth had been allowed to be known by big oil, Hawaii might have had a different future,” she said. Though the climate crisis was not the sole cause of the record-breaking fires, she added, it “set the table” for the destruction by fueling unusually hot, dry, flammable conditions.
The defendants’ attorneys in the Honolulu case have not attempted to argue that climate change is not real or human caused. In fact, in a, Chevron attorney Ted Boutrous, speaking for all of the suit’s defendants, said climate change is an “exceedingly important issue of utmost public concern”. “The hearing … is an incredibly important milestone in the case because it determines whether or not the case will proceed to discovery, to further motions and to trial,” said Antolini. “So it’s a go or no go point.”” motion, in which the defendants will argue that they did not conduct enough business in Hawaii to be hauled into the state’s courts. After all, the vast majority of planet-heating pollution from defendants’ fossil fuel products was emitted outside of Hawaii, they claim.
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