From: DeSmogBlog
By Ben Jervey • Friday, April 1, 2016 - 10:57
On Tuesday, the number of state
attorneys general investigating ExxonMobil for potential climate denial
fraud doubled. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Virgin
Islands Attorney General Claude Walker announced that they have opened
up their own probes of what Exxon knew about climate change while it was
denying the realities of climate science publicly and to shareholders.
They follow the lead of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — who in November first issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil for hundreds of thousands of pages of documents about the company's climate science research and internal communications spanning over four decades — and of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who announced that state's investigation in January.
They follow the lead of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — who in November first issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil for hundreds of thousands of pages of documents about the company's climate science research and internal communications spanning over four decades — and of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who announced that state's investigation in January.
News of these investigations in
Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands came as attorneys general and their
representatives gathered in Manhattan for a daylong conference on
climate change. During the proceedings, the top legal authorities from
15 states, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia announced a
coalition to collaborate on legal efforts to “deal with climate change,”
as Schneiderman put it. MORE
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