Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General

[Paladin]

Or as it's entitled on Drudge: "IT BEGINS: EXXON INVESTIGATED FOR 'CLIMATE' CRIMES... "

"The New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business.

According to people with knowledge of the investigation, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a subpoena Wednesday evening to Exxon Mobil, demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents.

The investigation focuses on whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks as recently as this year were consistent with the company’s own long-running scientific research.

The people said the inquiry would include a period of at least a decade during which Exxon Mobil funded outside groups that sought to undermine climate science, even as its in-house scientists were outlining the potential consequences — and uncertainties — to company executives.

Kenneth P. Cohen, vice president for public affairs at Exxon Mobil, said on Thursday that the company had received the subpoena and was still deciding how to respond."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/exxon-mobil-under-investigation-in-new-york-over-climate-statements.html?_r=0

[famousdayandyear]

What the hell?

[evadR]

So. it's  a crime to express an opinion about climate change.

[famousdayandyear]

Seems like it's a crime to express an opinion any damn where

[evadR]

"....and was still deciding how to respond."

F U B O

[aligncare]

Targeting appears to be modeled after the tobacco industry lawsuits. Difference though, medical data applied to the tobacco industry is easily tested and observed - particularly on autopsy. Climate science is no more than computer models and hypotheses based in fanciful emotion.

[Relic]

Targeting appears to be modeled after the tobacco industry lawsuits. Difference though, medical data applied to the tobacco industry is easily tested and observed - particularly on autopsy. Climate science is no more than computer models and hypotheses based in fanciful emotion.

Computer models and fanciful emotion are more real, more concrete to liberals than any real science.

The people have been groomed, and now the boot of government will come down on the throats of those who don't follow the party line. The cold winter of America has begun.

[Bigun]

George Orwell's 1984 is here! 

[Fishrrman]

[Paladin]

"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."

http://www.mintpressnews.com/hillary-clinton-calls-for-exxon-mobil-probe-after-gas-giant-pulls-funding-for-clintons-nonprofit/210997/

[kevindavis007]

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