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September 30, 2016

ExxonMobil Lawsuit Cites Decades-Long Cover-Up of Climate Change
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In other climate-related news, a new federal lawsuit takes aim at Exxon
Mobil in what advocates say is the first legal action targeting the oil
giant for its decades-long cover-up of climate change. The suit, by the
environmental group Conservation Law Foundation, charges Exxon Mobil
continues to pollute the Island End and Mystic rivers near Boston, in
part by failing to fortify a storage facility to withstand rising seas
and extreme weather caused by climate change. Last year, Inside Climate
News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that for decades, beginning in
1977, Exxon concealed its own findings that fossil fuels cause global
warming, alter the climate and melt Arctic ice.


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