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"A Resounding Victory": Court Rules Exxon Must Stand Trial for Lying to the Public About Climate Change

26 May 2022 | Abstracted from Alternet

"The lawsuit filed in 2019 by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey accuses Exxon of violating the state's consumer protection laws through a decades-long effort to conceal what it knew about the negative environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels...

"In particular, the complaint says, Exxon deceived investors about the risks that global warming poses to its business and misled consumers by downplaying the dangerous effects of its products and overstating what the company is doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

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