Should corporations be allowed to deceive Marylanders about their dangerous products and then make our communities pay the bill for the damages they cause?

That is an essential question at the heart of court cases that Annapolis, Anne Arundel County and Baltimore City have brought against major fossil fuel companies. Evidence shows that oil giants such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell knew decades ago that their polluting products would fuel the rising seas, deadly floods and other extreme weather events that are hitting Marylanders’ neighborhoods, businesses and livelihoods harder and more frequently every year.

Did they warn Marylanders about the threat? No. In fact, like tobacco executives who lied about the link between smoking and cancer, leaders in the fossil fuel industry conspire

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