Sierra Club, Inc. v. Exxon Mobil Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ex rel. ROB No. 3:24-cv-07594-RS BONTA, ATTORNEY

GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA,

12 Plaintiffs, 13 v.

EXXON MOBIL

CORPORATION, et al.,

Defendant.

SIERRA CLUB, INC.,

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION, INC., HEAL THE BAY, INC., No. 3:24-cv-07288-RS BAYKEEPER, INC., et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v. ORDER RE MOTIONS TO REMAND

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION, et al., 23 Defendant.

I.INTRODUCTION The State of California sued Exxon Mobil Corporation in California state court, averring that the company bears responsibility for the global plastic waste and pollution crisis due to its nonprofit organizations including Sierra Club, Inc., Surfrider Foundation, Inc., Heal the Bay, Inc., and Baykeeper, Inc.(collectively, “Nonprofit Plaintiffs”) filed a substantially similar suit in the same state court. Defendant removed each case to this court, asserting that maritime jurisdiction, the…