Boston environmental law group sues Exxon over climate change

BOSTON — A Boston-based environmental group is joining Attorney General Maura Healey in putting the climate change screws to oil giant ExxonMobil, alleging in a 70-page federal lawsuit filed Thursday that the company is well-aware of the effects of global warming but has done nothing to protect its Mystic River facility to guard against rising sea levels. "We started our own investigation," The Conservation Law Foundaton's Veronica Eady wrote in a brief posted to group's website in explaining t

BOSTON — A Boston-based environmental group is joining Attorney General Maura Healey in putting the climate change screws to oil giant ExxonMobil, alleging in a 70-page federal lawsuit filed Thursday that the company is well-aware of the effects of global warming but has done nothing to protect its Mystic River facility to guard against rising sea levels. "We started our own investigation," The Conservation Law Foundaton's Veronica Eady wrote in a brief posted to group's website in explaining t…