Posted on 11/09/2015 4:49:44 AM PST by kristinn
The Obama administration is under increasing pressure to investigate allegations that Exxon Mobil Corp. misled the public about its knowledge of climate change.
All of the Democratic candidates for president have called on the Justice Department to launch an investigation, joining a number of Dem lawmakers and major environmental groups.
Some are also pushing for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to probe whether the company broke federal law.
The pressure on the feds to act only intensified on Nov. 5 when it was revealed that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had launched his own probe. The allegations are creating a headache for the country's largest oil and natural gas company.
Exxon's problems started in September, when news website InsideClimate News started publishing a multi-part investigation alleging that Exxon knew in great detail as early as the 1970s that carbon dioxide, produced mainly by burning fossil fuels like oil and gas, was warming the planet.
The company, before its 1999 merger with Mobil, invested millions of dollars into its own research on the subject, reasoning that climate change could pose a great risk to its future.
But executives later steered the company’s climate activities toward sowing doubt about climate science and the role of fossil fuels in global warming, InsideClimate alleges. Only in the last decade or so did Exxon go back to agreeing with the mainstream science on climate.
The Los Angeles Times soon released the findings of its own investigation that made similar charges.
Now, more than 40 environmental groups, along with Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail, are calling on Attorney General Loretta Lynch or SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White to investigate.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This could go poorly for the plaintiffs.
The last thing that the AGW fraud need is to have actual scientific information presented in open court.
Pressure should be building for Exxon to put out a contract on the EPA
No, they should be able to countersue. Include the website in the countersuit.
Another dog and pony show to deflect all news media from the true disasters in the global economy, the middle east, the constant drum beat to start a war with Russia, and the overwhelming corruption in this country.
The racial animus is losing its punch to deflect attention and the sexual issues are making the citizens increasingly irritated and angry so the PTB need a new whipping boy.
Everyone should expect the liberal inquisition!
I think the problem is that Exxon has now succumbed to the blackmail and now backs the fraud of manmade climate change.
And yet, so far, the EPA has refused to release the documents which reveal its own criminal role in the “Global-Warming-Hoax”.
The Left is giving them the “tobacco” treatment.
They must taught a lesson or other corporations will also stop paying for protection.
What a corrupt nation we have become.
The environazis are at it again. Sorry kids, it’s not against the law to lie in America. If it was, every politician would be in prison. Even Obonzo “misleads” the public EVERY DAMN DAY.
“Exxon’s problems started in September, when news website InsideClimate News started publishing a multi-part investigation alleging that Exxon knew in great detail as early as the 1970s that carbon dioxide, produced mainly by burning fossil fuels like oil and gas, was warming the planet. “
One minor problem. It’s not CO2 that ‘warms’ the planet.
HOW MANY HERE REALIZE THAT THE NAZIS FINANCED THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND LENIN AND GAVE HIM $10 MILLION CASH TO START THE REVOLUTION...??? WITH STALIN...
[[The last thing that the AGW fraud need is to have actual scientific information presented in open court.]]
It will be ignored in court- the fix is in- They ARE now going to prosecute ‘big oil’ and ‘big business’ for ‘causing climate change’
Facts won’t matter-
[[I think the problem is that Exxon has now succumbed to the blackmail and now backs the fraud of manmade climate change.]]
Exactly- Every major business and corporation it seems now has bought into this lie- and we see them caving in time and time again- one has to wonder just how much pressure they are under to cave in?
The problem is that the GOP did NOT confront this lie when it first began- they allowed the left to get dug in on this issue- and now the GOP are so afraid of opposing it because they know if they do, they will be scorned, ridiculed, and pressured into complying -the GOP has no spine!
The left will NEVER admit this is a lie- Never- and hwy should they? They have NO opposition- no one to call them on their BS
They have to convince a jury of that.
Horsefeathers! Back in the '70s, everybody knew that burning "fossil fuels" was causing global COOLING. We were gonna have a new Ice Age! Cleveland was going to be buried under a mile of ice!
Some of us lived through that crap, and we haven't forgotten.
news website InsideClimate News
BWAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
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