Exxon ordered to hand over climate documents – “Exxon must come clean about what it knew about climate change”

Desdemona Despair

By Scott Malone; Editing by Toni Reinhold and Leslie Adler
11 January 2017

(Reuters) – A Massachusetts judge has refused to excuse Exxon Mobil Corp from a request by the state’s attorney general to hand over decades worth of documents on its views on climate change, state officials said on Wednesday.

The decision by Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Heidi Brieger denying Exxon’s request for an order exempting it from handing over the documents represents a legal victory for Attorney General Maura Healey, who is investigating the world’s largest publicly traded oil company’s climate policies.

“This order affirms our longstanding authority to investigate fraud,” Healey said on Twitter following the decision, adding that Exxon “must come clean about what it knew about climate change.” [more]

Massachusetts judge requires Exxon to hand over climate documents