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You democrats sure are intolerant and ignorant. You folks are out of control.
DOJ 'DISCUSSED' LEGAL ACTION AGAINST 'CLIMATE' DENIERS
Mar. 9, 2016 6:00pm
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday that the Justice Department has “discussed” taking civil legal action against the fossil fuel industry for “denying” the “threat of carbon emissions” when it comes to climate change.
I wish she would have. Then, the scientists could have a real debate on the facts.
Wouldn't this be a "thought crime" in the Orwellian world? Take them to court in the Ministry of Truth!
We have sunk to a new low.
And now this as a bogus excuse of global warming..
Democratic officials' campaign against fossil fuel companies is entering a new phase as state attorneys general launch investigations that mirror the Justice Department’s landmark case against “Big Tobacco,” probing claims that oil companies misled the public about the risks of global warming -- a charge industry representatives adamantly reject.
Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands are the latest to announce probes, specifically into whether ExxonMobil was up-front regarding what it knew about climate change.
“Fossil fuel companies that deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of climate change should be held accountable. That’s why we have joined in investigating ExxonMobil,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in announcing the inquiry.
The announcements follow a similar investigation by New York Attorney GeneralEric T. Schneiderman, who subpoenaed Exxon’s financial records and emails last November. Schneiderman has indicated ExxonMobil is not the only energy company in his office's crosshairs, vowing to prosecute any that committed fraud to maximize profit at the public's expense “to the fullest extent of the law.”
Yet industry representatives and their allies say what’s really going on is a coordinated attempt to silence climate change skeptics while punishing the industry itself for society’s use of fossil fuels, all based on spurious claims of a cover-up. Exxon representatives say the accusations against the oil giant are “laughable” and “not credible,” blasting recent news reports that assert the industry tried to mislead the public about global warming dangers.
“The stories were designed to put forth the inaccurate notion that our researchers had reached definitive conclusions about climate change decades and decades before the world’s experts on climate change had,” ExxonMobil media relations manager Alan Jeffers told FoxNews.com.
The legal pressure is mounting at both the state and federal levels, even as congressional Republicans accuse the Obama administration of unfairly hampering America’s energy industry.
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Idiots!!Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
And now this as a bogus excuse of global warming..Democratic officials' campaign against fossil fuel companies is entering a new phase as state attorneys general launch investigations that mirror the Justice Department’s landmark case against “Big Tobacco,” probing claims that oil companies misled the public about the risks of global warming -- a charge industry representatives adamantly reject.
Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands are the latest to announce probes, specifically into whether ExxonMobil was up-front regarding what it knew about climate change.
“Fossil fuel companies that deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of climate change should be held accountable. That’s why we have joined in investigating ExxonMobil,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in announcing the inquiry.
The announcements follow a similar investigation by New York Attorney GeneralEric T. Schneiderman, who subpoenaed Exxon’s financial records and emails last November. Schneiderman has indicated ExxonMobil is not the only energy company in his office's crosshairs, vowing to prosecute any that committed fraud to maximize profit at the public's expense “to the fullest extent of the law.”
Yet industry representatives and their allies say what’s really going on is a coordinated attempt to silence climate change skeptics while punishing the industry itself for society’s use of fossil fuels, all based on spurious claims of a cover-up. Exxon representatives say the accusations against the oil giant are “laughable” and “not credible,” blasting recent news reports that assert the industry tried to mislead the public about global warming dangers.
“The stories were designed to put forth the inaccurate notion that our researchers had reached definitive conclusions about climate change decades and decades before the world’s experts on climate change had,” ExxonMobil media relations manager Alan Jeffers told FoxNews.com.
The legal pressure is mounting at both the state and federal levels, even as congressional Republicans accuse the Obama administration of unfairly hampering America’s energy industry.
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