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ExxonMobil: NY Attorney General’s “Reckless and False Allegations” Misstate Climate Policies

June 9, 2017 1:57 PM EDT

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made inflammatory, reckless and false allegations when he misstated how ExxonMobil assesses the potential impacts of climate policy on its business to justify expanding a politically based investigation with ever-shifting and unravelling investigative theories.

From the outset of this investigation, it has been clear that the attorney general is working backwards from an assumption of ExxonMobils guilt, searching in vain for some theory to support his prejudgment, the company said in a brief to the New York Supreme Court today. The brief was filed by ExxonMobils lead lawyer, Ted... More