{"id":197254,"date":"2026-04-14T19:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197254\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:54:12","slug":"nyc-takes-on-oil-giants-over-ad-greenwashing-states-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197254\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Takes on Oil Giants Over Ad Greenwashing: States of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Battles Oil Giants Over Ad Claims <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776196452_478_.jpeg\" data-alignment=\"center\" alt=\" Exxon oil refinery in Texas\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p> Exxon oil refinery in Texas<\/p>\n<p>Photographer: Mark Felix\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>New York City this week will try to revive greenwashing claims against BP, ExxonMobil, and Shell, in a major test of the city\u2019s consumer protection law, Beth Wang <a data-terminal-id=\"TDHUI7KGIFQO\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/nycs-oil-deception-case-hinges-on-reading-of-misleading-ad-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city claims the oil giants marketed their products as being more environmentally friendly than they are, and overstated their efforts to address climate change. A state trial court dismissed the case, ruling the city was trying to \u201chave it both ways\u201d by arguing that consumers are aware of the environmental impact of fossil fuels while simultaneously being duped by the companies\u2019 advertising. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC Battles Oil Giants Over Ad Claims Exxon oil refinery in Texas Photographer: Mark Felix\/Bloomberg via Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7443,24951,8772,78632,38898,9,56,63,65,64,8965],"class_list":{"0":"post-197254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-consumer-protection","10":"tag-dismissal","11":"tag-federal-antitrust-legislation","12":"tag-fossil-energy","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-state-tax-legislation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}