Letters, Jan. 21: Oil giants should pay

Exxon Mobil was well aware of climate change predictions, a reader points out, so should have to mitigate the damage it did.Re: “Just ignore Trump,” Your Turn, Jan. 13:

Roy talked about American families having to live within their means when preparing a household budget. Yet no family would set a budget without first making sure they were collecting their full paycheck. Nobody would accept getting half a paycheck owed as the reason they needed to tighten their belt. These same Republicans have voted time after time to cut funding for the IRS, the agency that assures that wages owed the U.S. Treasury are actually paid.

With the revelation that Exxon scientists in the 1970s accurately predicted the heating of the planet due to fossil fuel emissions, it is time for states and the federal government to bring the big oil companies to court.

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