ExxonMobil is again urging a federal district court to throw out environmentalists' novel amended suit claiming the company has a legal duty to upgrade an oil terminal as a safeguard against climate change, saying the plaintiffs' amended complaint defies a court order to avoid basing the suit on "speculative" climate impacts like long-term sea-level rise.In a Dec. 20 motion for dismissal, Exxon says the Conservation Law Foundation's (CLF) newly amended complaint over the oil terminal in Massachusetts still cites predictions as far in the future as the year 2100 as creating "imminent" risks to the terminal in question, despite being ordered to limit its arguments to hazards likely to arise within the decade.
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