Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood sued Exxon Mobile yesterday, Oct. 24. This follows three years of investigations and multiple other major lawsuits being shut down by the company according to an article from The New York Times.
Her claim is that Exxon Mobile has been lying to shareholders by downplaying the risk of climate change to its business. As many should know, climate change does have a correlation with fossil fuels but Exxon Mobile’s website page called “Our position on climate change” essentially shrugs off the dire need for “rapid action” that the most recent IPCC report states.
The research that began looking into Exxon Mobile about their strategic methods of presenting information to their shareholders was published in a different New York Times article on Nov. 5, 2015, which began with Former Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. At the time, the research began by including a decade of covering up and suppressing climate science by the company.
Rex Tillerson, President Trump’s first secretary of state and former chief executive of Exxon Mobile is one of many to have known about these manipulations by the company.
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