Climate Changed
New York Sues Exxon for Deceiving Investors on Climate Change
- Lawsuit comes after three-year probe into company’s practices
- Case pursued after Exxon goaded state to ‘put up or shut up’
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Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge in August and told the state’s attorney general to “put up or shut up” after spending three years investigating the company’s public disclosures about climate change, saying authorities should sue the energy giant or move on.
On Wednesday, New York chose to strike.