While ExxonMobil’s former CEO Rex Tillerson evades questions concerning the oil giant’s long-standing knowledge of their business’s impact on the earth’s climate, a small amount of good news is coming out of Massachusetts.
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.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have been going toe to toe with ExxonMobil over what the company’s own research told them about CO2 omissions in the atmosphere and its effects. Maura already has an ExxonMobil lawsuit against her!