News Release

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has spent two years fighting in court to hold accountable some of the world’s most powerful corporate interests — ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute — for lying to Minnesotans about the overwhelmingly clear reality that their oil and gas businesses have fueled and continue to fuel our escalating climate crisis.

Like tobacco companies before them, these groups sold and marketed dangerous products while misleading consumers about the catastrophic threat they knew fossil fuels posed to our climate, economy, and future. Through a coordinated campaign of deception, they spread climate denial and disinformation for decades to protect their enormous profits