BOSTON — Massachusetts's highest court has sided with Attorney General Maura Healey in her bid to force ExxonMobil to produce and turn over documents her office maintains will show that the energy giant was aware about carbon emissions and their effect on the earth's climate since at least 1976.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Friday dismissed Exxon's appeal after Suffolk Superior Court Judge Heidi E. Brieger in January 2017 ruled in favor of Healey. Brieger, a 2012 appointee of then-Governor Deval Patrick, had previously spent 20 years working as a federal prosecutor.
