ExxonMobil sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups alleging tortious interference with its plastic recycling business.

The oil giant ExxonMobil this week sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alleging that the state’s chief lawyer has been motivated by “foreign influence, personal ambition, and a murky source of financing rife with conflicting business interests.”

Exxon Mobil Corp. has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups.

The federal suit, filed in Texas, claims California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups conducted a “smear campaign” against the company’s advanced plastics recycling operations.

Exxon Mobil filed a federal lawsuit Monday against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental groups.

ExxonMobil Corp. is firing back at California Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental groups, filing a lawsuit accusing them of defaming its chemical recycling technology.

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.

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

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.

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,

ExxonMobil sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday over claims he engaged in a smear campaign against the company and its recycling initiatives.