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Berrin v. Delta Air Lines Inc. [1]

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Date: 2023-07

05/30/2023

Complaint

Complaint filed.

Class Action Lawsuit Claimed Delta Misrepresented That It Was “Carbon-Neutral” Airline. A California resident who had purchased flights from Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta) filed a class action complaint in the federal district court for the Central District of California alleging that Delta “grossly misrepresent[ed] the total environmental impact of its business operations” by marketing itself as a “carbon-neutral” airline. The plaintiff alleged that this representation was based on Delta’s participation in a voluntary carbon offsets market in which investors in “green projects” such as renewable energy or prevention of deforestation receive “carbon offsets.” The plaintiff alleged that she had discovered that any representation that carbon offsets purchased by Delta had entirely offset the carbon emissions from the company’s operations were “manifestly and provably false” because of “foundational issues” with the market, including “inaccurate accounting”; “non-additional effects on worldwide carbon levels due to the vendors crediting offsets for projects that would have occurred with or without offset market investment”; non-immediate speculative emissions reductions that will at best occur over decades, despite crediting purchasers with the sum of those projected offsets”; and “impermanent projects subject to disease, natural disasters, and human intervention.” The plaintiff alleged that she would not have purchased Delta’s services or would have paid substantially less if she had understood that the representations of carbon neutrality were false. She asserted claims under California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act, False Advertising Law, and Unfair Competition Law.

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[1] Url: http://climatecasechart.com/case/berrin-v-delta-air-lines-inc/

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