Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change

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A new report details how ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry, over decades, worked to deceive the public over the science of climate change and avoid regulation.

ExxonMobil has previously dismissed such research as the work of anti-oil activists. But on Wednesday, New York’s lawsuit, alleging the company mislead investors,“For 60 years, the fossil fuel industry has known about the potential global warming dangers of their products.

The report suggests that while the disinformation campaign was successful in confusing the public and slowing a government response to a danger oil company scientists had identified as far back as the 1970s, such campaigns can be stopped. On Oct. 10, Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Maura Healy sent a notice to ExxonMobil of her office’s intent to sue in civil court — for violating the state’s Consumer Protection Act — “by engaging in unfair or deceptive acts” regarding the sale and branding of fossil fuel products.

“It appears your office has decided to charge the company without any consideration or concern for the underlying facts,” wrote ExxonMobil’s counsel, Theodore V. Wells Jr., in a letter dated Oct. 14. Instead, Wells said, the lawsuit seems purposefully timed to interfere with the New York trial.

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