Exxon Mobil Corp. encountered a major setback on Wednesday when a Massachusetts judge ordered the oil company to turn over 40 years of documents related to climate change.
“This is a huge victory for democracy,” a corporate watchdog group said of the court ruling.
Exxon Mobil Corp. encountered a major setback on Wednesday when a Massachusetts judge ordered the oil company to turn over 40 years of documents related to climate change.
The ruling represents a huge win for the state’s attorney general Maura Healey, who is investigating how much Exxon Mobil knew about the link between fossil fuels and climate change and if it intentionally hid such information from the public.
“Exxon must now end its obstructive tactics and come clean about whether it misled Massachusetts consumers and investors about what it knew about climate change, its causes and effects,” Healey said in a statement provided to The Boston Globe. To read more please click here.
Environmental activists rally against the nomination of former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be U.S. secretary of state, ahead of his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
