Posted on 01/12/2017 9:20:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
ExxonMobil has lost a key battle in an investigation into whether the oil giant misled the public about the dangers of climate change.
A Massachusetts judge ordered Exxon (XOM) on Wednesday to hand over more than four decades of the company's climate change research.
The court rejected Exxon's emergency motion to kill the demand from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who is investigating allegations the company ignored internal scientific research going back to the 1970s.
The ruling came on the same day that longtime Exxon boss Rex Tillerson was being grilled by Congress about the company's climate change tactics at his secretary of state hearing. Tillerson, who stepped down last month as CEO after a decade in charge, repeatedly ducked questions about the issue from U.S. Senators.
Asked if he lacks the knowledge to respond or is simply refusing to answer, Tillerson said, "A little of both."
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Why would any company do climate change research?
That’s a huge disservice to its shareholders.
Why should a private company be forced to hand over their proprietary research data?
The government can pay for it if they want it... if it is for sale.
Oh, that's because 40 years ago the thing that was going to Kill Us All was global cooling, not warming.
Leftist dooshbags want it both ways. Recently, they got it.
That's about to end.
Healey recently banned the sale of AR-15s in MA and is working to outlaw all semi-automatic firearms (http://goal.org/). “For the children.” Repub Gov. Baker applauds her. Something to remember next election.
Will they turn over the emails between Exxon and the Obama admin. showing the shakedown?
They found the smoking gun, in the research it clearly indicates you get heat from burning oil — PROOF
Immediate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Heidi Brieger supported the move by the Leftist AG.
— Geee. I wonder who she voted for??
THIS is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!<>I want to see Obama’s SCHEDULE!!!
The states are hoping for another massive payout like they got from the tobacco settlement back in 1998.
Simply a shakedown modeled on the shakedown of the tobacco industry. The objective is to extract money to fund liberal programs.
Now THIS is a witch hunt.
I didn't think anyone could be dumber than Boxer....I was wrong!
There are NO “dangers of climate change”.
We simply adapt as we have for thousands of years.
Pretending mankind is impacting the climate is just the latest excuse for fascism.
When you have the entire news media, most of academia and half of the politicians trying to destroy your company and entire industry with false theory & information, if you, as CEO, do not research the issue, then you will have completely failed your stockholders.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“...The objective is to extract money to fund liberal programs....”
Exactly — it is what the corrupt RATS do. Steal money, one way or another to BUY POWER AND VOTES. Bottom line.
Political payback. Once Trump is in office, his AG should start demanding Universities turn over 40 years of THEIR “research” on global warming!!!
What authority does a state judge have to demand research?
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