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Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industrys Decades of Deception on Climate Change
2015-07-09 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution. Whitehouse likened their actions to those of the tobacco companies that conspired to manufacture doubt about the link between smoking and disease when they were all too aware of it. In 2006, a federal district court ruled that the tobacco industrys deceptive campaign to...
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