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Does New York Dial-Back Suggest Ill Tidings for Massachusetts Attorney General’s Climate Change Case Against ExxonMobil?

Does New York Dial-Back Suggest Ill Tidings for Massachusetts Attorney General’s Climate Change Case Against ExxonMobil?

An energy analyst says a late decision by the New York Attorney General to drop two of four fraud allegations against ExxonMobil in a lawsuit over climate change bodes ill for the Massachusetts Attorney General's case against the oil giant. On Thursday, November 7, a lawyer for the New York Attorney General's office told a judge before closing arguments in a trial that the state would drop two fraud counts alleging actual harm done by ExxonMobil and keep two remaining counts under an expansive

An energy analyst says a late decision by the New York Attorney General to drop two of four fraud allegations against ExxonMobil in a lawsuit over climate change bodes ill for the Massachusetts Attorney General's case against the oil giant. On Thursday, November 7, a lawyer for the New York Attorney General's office told a judge before closing arguments in a trial that the state would drop two fraud counts alleging actual harm done by ExxonMobil and keep two remaining counts under an expansive…