Sentences with phrase «climate fraud investigation»

Two different federal judges took a dim view of arguments like those that have been advanced by New York's AG as part of his climate fraud investigation into Exxon Mobil.

The oil company loses its home court advantage before a sympathetic judge who has voiced skepticism over the climate fraud investigations by state attorneys general.

Ebell Educates State Attorney Generals About Climate Denial: In 2016, the Center for Media and Democracy, publisher of Sourcewatch, obtained audio from an private, undisclosed meeting [6] with the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) where Ebell spewed climate denial to Republican AG's and urged them to continue pushing back against the climate fraud investigations.

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AG Eric Schniederman's fraud investigation into ExxonMobile is focused less on the distant past than on relatively recent statements by the company related to climate change and what it means for its future.

Meanwhile, lawmakers, presidential candidates, climate scientists and environmentalists increasingly are calling for federal investigations of Exxon under racketeering and securities fraud statutes.

(Nine investigations of Mann's climate research, including one by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and another by the National Science Foundation, have found no evidence of academic fraud.

Smith's most dramatic rush to the legal defense of the fossil fuel industry was his unprecedented move last year to issue subpoenas to two state attorneys general and several nongovernmental advocacy groups over the states» climate change fraud investigation of Exxon.

Christopher Horner, an attorney who claims that the earth is cooling, is known within the scientific community for hounding climate change researchers with relentless investigations and public ridicule, often deriding scientists as «communists» and frauds.

When Mr. Schneiderman launched the investigation back in 2015, he argued that Exxon Mobil may have committed fraud by failing to broadly announce the results of research conducted by its own scientists on the contribution of fossil fuel combustion to climate change in the 1970s and 1980s.

At the United Nations Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (UN IPCC) Conference in Bali in mid December, Lord Christopher Monckton, an international business consultant specializing in the investigation of scientific frauds, a former adviser to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and presenter of the 90 - minute climate movie ApocClimate Change (UN IPCC) Conference in Bali in mid December, Lord Christopher Monckton, an international business consultant specializing in the investigation of scientific frauds, a former adviser to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and presenter of the 90 - minute climate movie Apocclimate movie Apocalypse?

That plan came to light during a hearing in Exxon's battle with Schneiderman over his office's investigation into whether the company violated consumer fraud laws in connection with climate change - related disclosures.

The New York and Massachusetts investigations focus on whether past statements by Exxon questioning climate change science and downplaying its risks to the company constituted a form of fraud against its shareholders or the public.

With the start of the Trump administration only a few weeks away, bringing in a new era of leadership unlikely to condone further fraud (and in fact may pursue investigations of), it has the establishment climate science truly running scared.

Exhibit D: The investigation recently launched by New York State Attorney General against Exxon Mobil for climate - related fraud.