The environmentalist campaign targeting ExxonMobil for its statements on climate change is primarily about the company’s position on public policy, according to a new study authored by an activist closely aligned with the campaign. Continue reading on EID Climate.
“We’re actually looking at a situation where a select group of individuals…are singlehandedly responsible for global warming and are refusing to do anything about it.” Does this sound familiar? It’s not a quote from the latest environmentalist report blaming energy companies for global warming, nor...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has spearheaded the #ExxonKnew crusade, has repeatedly refused to turn over emails under open records laws – and new court documents provide yet another reason why he might want to keep them hidden. It turns out Schneiderman definitely...
Every time climate activists think they’re gaining steam in their attacks on ExxonMobil, another wheel falls off their campaign. Last week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that he was once again shifting his justification for probing the oil and natural gas company. An...
A federal judge in New York today refused to dismiss Exxon’s objection to investigations launched by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey regarding what the company knew about climate change. The decision allows the company’s case to continue while...
How irrelevant and desperate has the #ExxonKnew campaign become? Well, they’re now claiming that global warming caused the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, and that Exxon should have known it would happen. The claims were made in yet another article written by graduate students at the...
A federal judge this week delivered a major blow to the #ExxonKnew campaign and the two state attorneys general investigating the company, ruling “The merits of each of Exxon’s claims involve important issues that should be determined by a court.” The decision transferred the case...
On March 29, 2016, a coalition of nearly 20 state attorneys general held a press conference to announce a joint campaign to investigate and prosecute ExxonMobil, based on the spurious accusation that the company hid its scientific findings on climate change. The AGs invited former...
Yesterday, Bloomberg broke a story that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking for more information about a second email address previously used by former ExxonMobil president and CEO Rex Tillerson, as part of his investigation of the company. The email address – which...
What do wealthy activists do now that their #ExxonKnew campaign has failed? Choose another oil company to target, apparently. But the sequel is never as good as the original – and in this case, the original was never very good, either. Last week, The Guardian...
The New York Post reports today that the Rockefellers and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman were apparently discussing the #ExxonKnew investigation several months before either the InsideClimate News (ICN) or Columbia School of Journalism #ExxonKnew pieces were published. This is quite telling given the...
#ExxonKnew activists are so desperate they’re starting to tout investigations that never even happened – again. This week, eighteen U.S. House Democrats from California wrote a letter to the new California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to ask him to “continue the state’s investigation into what...