Members of Congress claim that oil companys ‘sustained deception campaign’ could be prosecuted through truth in advertising and racketeering lawsMembers of Congress have asked for a federal investigation into whether ExxonMobil broke the law by intentionally obscuring the truth approximately climate change.
The two members of Congress wrote to Loretta Lynch,the attorney general, on Wednesday, or saying they were concerned by the results of two separate investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times,which found that ExxonMobil scientists confirmed fossil fuels were causing climate change decades ago, but publicly embarked on a campaign of denial.
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Source: theguardian.com