Hello and welcome to Dread I'm Amy Westervalt.

And this was a hell of a week for climate lawsuits.

On Wednesday, the state of Minnesota sued Exxon, Coke Industries and the American Petroleum

Institute in a groundbreaking case alleging consumer fraud pegged to 30 years of climate

disinformation campaigns.

It's a really bold suit taking a new approach.

It's centered on disinformation about climate change as a crime against the people of Minnesota.

And then the very next day on Thursday morning, Washington DC filed its climate disinformation

suit against BP, Chevron, Exxon mobile and Shell.

With the Minnesota case, the DC case is built around consumer protection law, not nuisance

law, which the majority of other climate cases are based on.

That's a really important distinction and it will be interesting to watch what happens

with both the nuisance and these consumer fraud approaches in the months ahead.

We'll have more details on the Minnesota and DC cases for you right after this quick

message from today's sponsor.

We're here showing these three entities specifically because they're designed, conducted,

funded, this campaign of dissimption.

They carried out in Minnesota in violation of the laws of Minnesota.

That is Attorney General from the great state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, announcing a

lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon mobile and Coke Industries.

This is a really big deal.

Starting with the fact that none of the other climate lawsuits have named the API and Coke,

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