…excerpt from The Tree:
In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced he will investigate whether the oil giant knowingly misled the public and investors about the dangers of climate change. Last month from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that Exxon’s own scientists warned the company’s top leadership that burning fossil fuels causes climate change with potentially “catastrophic” impacts as far back as 1977. Yet despite this warning the company spent decades funneling millions of dollars into groups that dispute or cast doubt on the connection between fossil fuels and climate change. With the dirty tactics of fossil fuel companies well and truly in the open, the ExxonMobil investigation should be a warning shot for other companies that they will no longer be allowed to peddle misinformation and must once and for all wake up to the dampening demand for fossil fuels…
More recent coverage of Exxon Mobil climate change revelations…
- More oil companies could join Exxon Mobil as focus of climate investigations (New York Times)
- ExxonMobil under investigation over claims it lied about climate change risks (Guardian)
- Exxon Mobil investigated in New York over possible lies on climate (New York Times)
- Gore calls for Exxon Mobil inquiry on climate change (New York Times)
- Congressmen call on SEC to investigate Exxon’s climate disclosures (Inside Climate News)
- Exxon knew about climate change almost 40 years ago (Scientific American)
- ExxonMobil targets journalists and activists after climate change investigation (Motherboard)
Projected impact of the former on Paris Climate Talks?
The New Matilda:
‘Malcolm Turnbull’s Dirty Money Means Oz Won’t Be Taken Seriously At Paris Climate Talks, says 350.org’
Climate advocacy group 350.org has demanded Malcolm Turnbull divest from ExxonMobil, which is under investigation for a climate change cover-up…
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