Pressure Mounts For Probe Of Exxon Over Climate Change

The New York attorney general might be only the first to start asking what Exxon knew about climate change, when it knew it, and what it said about it. All the major Democratic presidential candidates have called on the Department of Justice to launch its own investigation, as have a number of Democratic members of Congress and environmental groups. Some are specifically suggesting it’s a shareholder and disclosure issue and calling on the SEC to take a look. An alliance of environmental groups maintains the deception is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s campaign to discount the dangers of smoking, and potentially far more consequential.