Honolulu County and the Board of Water Supply, Maui County and the state of Hawaii are among nearly 60 states, cities and tribes nationwide suing oil companies for damages caused by deceitful peddling of a product — fossil fuels, i.e. oil and gas. Honolulu’s claim is that Shell, Chevron, Sunoco, ExxonMobil and other “Big Oil” defendants “knowingly concealed and misrepresented” the effects of these products, “which then caused property and infrastructure damage in Honolulu.” ...read more read less