(September 4, 2020, 10:16 AM EDT) -- JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The city of Hoboken, N.J., sued six oil companies and their subsidiaries, as well as the American Petroleum Institute (API), in New Jersey state court on Sept. 2, arguing that the defendants withheld from the public the risk of climate change associated with the burning of fossil fuels in violation of the state's consumer protection law and that weather events caused by global warming are causing the municipality to incur increased costs to deal with power outages and flooding (Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al., No. L-317920, N.J. Super., Hudson Co.)....