{"id":1512304,"date":"2024-02-21T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=54ce44e07bc58b0468126c55abc1584e"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:10:21","slug":"chicago-joins-wave-of-lawsuits-against-big-oil-for-climate-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/21\/chicago-joins-wave-of-lawsuits-against-big-oil-for-climate-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Joins Wave of Lawsuits Against Big Oil for Climate Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago on Tuesday joined the growing list of U.S. cities and states suing Big Oil for lying to the public about how burning fossil fuels causes and exacerbates the climate emergency. The administration of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and the industry lobby...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/chicago-joins-wave-of-lawsuits-against-big-oil-for-climate-deception\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/chicago-joins-wave-of-lawsuits-against-big-oil-for-climate-deception\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago joins eight states plus the District of Columbia and several municipalities that are suing Big Oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5249,59309,4498,5605,74797,4603,4434,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512304"}],"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\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512307,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512304\/revisions\/1512307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}