Sensing the Walls Closing In, NY AG Tries for Reboot of Failed Climate RICO Effort
Monday August 22, 2016
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman poses at a march with #ExxonKnew proponents Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and 350.org cofounder Bill McKibben.
As EID highlighted last week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman – after months of telling us his investigation into ExxonMobil was about the company “knowing” about climate change in the 1970s and 1980s and keeping those findings secret – is now telling the New York Times that he’s not actually investigating what Exxon knew, but what Exxon predicts. EID has the whole rundown on what the New York Post editorial writers said was a “pathetic new pretext for probing Exxon” here.
But Schneiderman’s complete change of tune last week is stunning for another reason: he’s pretty much rejecting his activist friends’ #ExxonKnew narrative even though they have been working closely with his office from the outset. In the New York Times interview, Schneiderman specifically makes a point to downplay their role:
Mr. Schneiderman has also been accused of conspiring with environmental g...