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Coalition Of U.S. States Signed Pact To Keep Exxon Climate Probe Confidential
Coalition Of U.S. States Signed Pact To Keep Exxon Climate Probe Confidential
Besides Exxon, the agreement says other entities could be targeted if states felt they were delaying action to fight climate change.
HOUSTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A pact that 15 U.S. states signed to jointly investigate Exxon Mobil Corp for allegedly misleading the public about climate change sought to keep prosecutors’ deliberations confidential and was broadly written so they could probe other fossil fuel companies.
The “Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement” was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies.
The signed agreement has not been made public until now, and Reuters reviewed a copy of it on Thursday.
It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors’ legal strategy than the general outline provided at their announcement in March, which was headlined by former Vice President Al Gore...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/exxon-mobil-climate-change_us_57a2d553e4b0e1aac914ce59?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=d2ba41ed30-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-d2ba41ed30-327768601Besides Exxon, the agreement says other entities could be targeted if states felt they were delaying action to fight climate change.
HOUSTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A pact that 15 U.S. states signed to jointly investigate Exxon Mobil Corp for allegedly misleading the public about climate change sought to keep prosecutors’ deliberations confidential and was broadly written so they could probe other fossil fuel companies.
The “Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement” was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies.
The signed agreement has not been made public until now, and Reuters reviewed a copy of it on Thursday.
It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors’ legal strategy than the general outline provided at their announcement in March, which was headlined by former Vice President Al Gore...
