Dozens of climate activists rallied outside the New York County Supreme Court Tuesday to support state Attorney General Letitia James on the first day of a nationally watched case that aims to hold ExxonMobil accountable for defrauding investors about the business risks of continuing to burn fossil fuels. Supporters of the People of New York v. ExxonMobil trial, which is expected to last three weeks, carried a 100-foot long banner that read, “Climate Crisis / #ExxonKnew / Make Them Pay.”
Although the case isn’t directly about ExxonMobil’s contributions to the human-caused climate crisis, the state’s investigation—launched by Underwood’s predecessor Eric Schneiderman—became public in 2015, shortly after the Los Angeles Times and InsideClimate News published explosive reports detailing the company’s decades of “manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.”
— source commondreams.org | Oct 22, 2019