"WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton has called for a federal investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.’s funding of climate change denial just months after the Houston-based oil giant decided to end its sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative.
At a New Hampshire town hall meeting last Thursday, Clinton told Jordan Cichon, a local activist and community organizer for the environmental activism group 350 Action, that Exxon Mobil deserved to be investigated for apparently covering up decades-old evidence of the impact of fossil fuels on global warming.
“There’s a lot of evidence that they misled,” she told Cichon in the brief interaction caught on video by 350 Action:
Prior to the statement, Clinton had been reluctant to comment on the behavior of this former financial benefactor.
Writing for International Business Times on Friday, David Sirota and Andrew Perez noted that Clinton’s statement comes just months after a report by USA Today revealed the failing fortunes of the Clinton Global Initiative, a branch of the Clinton Foundation, the massive nonprofit run by her family. The report showed that several long-time, big-name sponsors, including Exxon Mobil, had backed out of, or reduced their support for the initiative’s annual meeting this year."
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