Exxon accused Rob Bonta, the Sierra Group and others of making “false accusations” about its advanced recycling process.

Exxon lawsuit accuses California's attorney general, the Sierra Club and others of defaming the oil giant with negative comments about plastic recycling.

ExxonMobil on Monday sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and a group of environmental activist groups, alleging they colluded on a campaign of defamation against the oil giant’s plastic recycling initiative.

After Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental groups filed a lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of polluting landfills and waterways with plastics and lying about it, the oil giant has struck back with a suit in its home state of Texas,

A major oil company has responded to California Attorney General Rob Bonta with a lawsuit alleging defamation after he accused them of misleading customers. Exxon Mobil sued Bonta on Monday, months after he sued the company “for allegedly engaging in a decades-long campaign of deception that caused and exacerbated the global plastics pollution crisis.

The oil company's lawsuit rejects claims over its deceptive plastics recycling practices and pins the motive on politics from foreign interests.