Just because ExxonMobil may get away with avoiding legal accountability for its years of obstructing environmental justice doesn’t mean that all polluters will be able to do so. Case in point: DuPont, which earlier this month confronted the consequences of carelessness about cancer: David Freeman hugged Michael Papantonio after a federal court jury awarded him […]
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A Legal Strategy That May Have Run Out of Gas
Is the effort to hold ExxonMobil legally accountable for its reported chicanery on the risks of climate change effectively over already? It’s still unclear exactly why Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker gave up on his efforts to obtain documents from ExxonMobil that could have shed light on whether the fossil-fuel behemoth violated anti-fraud laws. […]
