IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING

But rather than warn consumers and the public about these dangers, fossil fuel 11 companies and their surrogates have for decades pushed disinformation to discredit the scientific 12 consensus on climate change; to create doubt in the public’s mind about the climate-disruptive 13 impacts of burning fossil fuels; and to delay the energy economy’s transition to a lower-carbon 14 15 future. [...] 10 The Makah Reservation, which consists of approximately 30,000 acres on northwestern tip of 11 the Olympic Peninsula bordered to the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca and to the west by the 12 Pacific Ocean and including Tatoosh Island and Waadah Island, was reserved from a portion of 13 14 the Tribe’s aboriginal territory under the 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay, 12 Stat. [...] API subsequently commissioned research on carbon dioxide pollution from the 17 Stanford Research Institute.18 In 1968, the SRI scientists informed API that “[p]ast and present 18 studies of CO2 are detailed and seem to explain adequately the present state of CO2 in the 19 20 21 14 Edward Teller, Energy Patterns of the Future, in Energy and Man: A Symposium 53–72 (1960). [...] The report 6 7 explicitly connected the rise in CO2 levels to the combustion of fossil fuels, finding it “unlikely 8 that the observed rise in atmospheric CO2 has been due to changes in the biosphere.” The 9 scientists’ projection was accurate. [...] In the 1970s and 1980s, Exxon scientists 13 confirmed that burning fossil fuels was the dominant source of carbon dioxide pollution and 14 15 accurately predicted future concentrations of carbon dioxide and the associated rise in 16 temperature.