Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil Corp. filed a countersuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups on Monday, accusing them of colluding on a campaign of defamation against the company’s plastic recycling initiatives.
The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, was in response to a separate legal challenge filed by Bonta and four California-based environmental groups, the Sierra Club, San Francisco Baykeeper, Heal the Bay, and the Surfrider Foundation, against Exxon Mobil in September 2024.
