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TexasTowelie

(116,436 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 09:08 PM Oct 2019

Healey sues ExxonMobil, alleges climate change deception

ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY sued ExxonMobil Corp. on Thursday, accusing the company of misleading Massachusetts investors and consumers by withholding information linking its fossil fuel products to climate change.

The 205-page lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, says Exxon scientists predicted 37 years ago, with “astonishing accuracy,” that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would reach 415 parts per million by 2019. That level, “the highest level in human history,” was reached on May 11, according to the lawsuit.

“From the late 1970s onward, Exxon scientists and management knew that Exxon’s oil (including petroleum), natural gas, and related hydrocarbon products were the leading cause of climate change and that climate change, if unabated, would have potentially ‘catastrophic’ – as one Exxon scientist put it 37 years ago – impacts on the global environment and human communities,” the lawsuit says.

Healey claims ExxonMobil violated investor laws by failing to disclose information that could have influenced decisions about whether to buy Exxon Mobil stock and consumer protection laws by not revealing information that would have influenced decisions to buy ExxonMobil products. The lawsuit alleges that Exxon downplayed the impacts of climate change and sold fuels and engine oil products it advertised as “green” when it knew they were contributing to climate change,

Read more: https://commonwealthmagazine.org/environment/healey-sues-exxonmobil-alleges-climate-change-deception/

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Lol. sheshe2 Oct 2019 #1

sheshe2

(87,049 posts)
1. Lol.
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 09:28 PM
Oct 2019

You are in MA tonight.

Love Maura Healey.

Maura Healey, a Democrat and a nemesis of President Trump, has won re-election in Massachusetts.

The nation's first openly gay attorney general defeated Republican challenger Jay McMahon on Tuesday for a second four-year term. She was first elected in 2014.

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Healey has filed dozens of lawsuits challenging Trump's policies, particularly his efforts to restrict immigration and his attempts to bar transgender people from openly serving in the military.

Since Trump's election, Healey has helped lead Democratic, blue-state attorneys general who have employed their states' legal clout as a weapon against the president's conservative agenda.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/11/06/galvin-re-elected-secretary-of-state
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