{"id":1216137,"date":"2023-09-17T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1014bc83f1e634e0d505d87379856c47"},"modified":"2023-09-17T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:51:14","slug":"a-watershed-moment-ca-sues-oil-giants-over-decades-of-climate-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/17\/a-watershed-moment-ca-sues-oil-giants-over-decades-of-climate-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Watershed Moment\u201d: CA Sues Oil Giants Over Decades of Climate Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of California on Friday filed suit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, accusing the five oil and gas giants of a decadeslong campaign to mislead the public about the threat fossil fuels pose to the climate. The lawsuit makes California the largest economy on the planet to take legal action against fossil fuel companies over their efforts to deceive the world about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/a-watershed-moment-ca-sues-oil-giants-over-decades-of-climate-destruction\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is the largest economy so far to take aim at fossil fuel companies for their role in climate destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5249,17956,862,5667,5605,55563,33983,6578,4,6580,5731],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216145,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216137\/revisions\/1216145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}