Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach at a news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka last year. Kobach is seeking to intervene in Ford County’s lawsuit against major plastics manufacturers. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach hopes to intervene in a lawsuit accusing major plastics manufacturers of engaging in a “decades-long campaign of fraud and deception” about the feasibility of recycling.
A group of U.S. residents who have purchased plastic products, along with officials in Ford County, Kansas, filed the lawsuit in December. The lawsuit names ExxonMobil, Chevron, other plastics manufacturers and an industry group as defendants…