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How a 2012 book helped two teams journalists probe Exxon changing view of climate risks
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: With the launch of an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s climate stance by New York's attorney general, talk of wide-ranging tobacco-style litigation against Exxon and other oil and gas companies has amplified. But if the Exxon inquiry does blow up into a battle against civil and criminal charges, the oil and gas major may have one big advantage that the tobacco industry, which for years denied that smoking was injurious to human health, did not: lessons from the tobacco industry's flawed...
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The war against Exxon Mobil
2015-11-09 07:00:27| Chemicals - Topix.net
If you care about free speech, you should pay attention to the campaign now being waged against Exxon Mobil. More than 50 environmental and civil rights groups have written Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging her to open a "federal probe" of the giant energy firm.
New York investigating Exxon over climate change statements
2015-11-08 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NYSE Post: Beginning in September, InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times have published a series of articles finding that Exxon has a long history of climate research, which contradicts its stance on climate policy (ClimateWire, October 28). The investigation will focus on whether the company's statements regarding climate change were consistent with its 40-year scientific research. New York's Martin Act passed in 1921 gives the attorney general extraordinary powers and discretion to investigate financial...
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McKibben: Exxon, Keystone, and the turn against fossil fuels
2015-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: The fossil-fuel industry--which, for two centuries, underwrote our civilization and then became its greatest threat--has started to take serious hits. At noon today, President Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline, becoming the first world leader to turn down a major project on climate grounds. Eighteen hours earlier, New Yorks Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that hed issued subpoenas to Exxon, the richest and most profitable energy company in history, after substantial evidence emerged...
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NY attorney general wields powerful weapon in Exxon climate case
2015-11-07 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A near century-old statute that gives New York state prosecutors unusually broad authority to prosecute securities fraud could prove a powerful weapon as Attorney General Eric Schneiderman probes Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) over whether the oil firm mislead the public and shareholders about the perils of climate change. The 1921 Martin Act, a wide-reaching state law, was dusted off in the early 2000s by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer who used it to aggressively go after Wall Street...
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