03 May 2022 --- In a “first of its kind” US state investigation, California’s attorney general Rob Bonta has launched a major inquiry into petroleum companies for “aggressively” spreading decades of disinformation on plastics and their damage to human and environmental health. Bonta’s first move has been to subpoena ExxonMobil for information that may implicate its role in intentionally deceiving the public over mass plastic production – an accusation that the company brands “meritless.”