Rep Lamar Smith & Friends Form Legion of Doom to Protect ExxonMobil

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Rep Lamar Smith & Friends Form Legion of Doom to Protect ExxonMobil

May 20th, 2016

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On the road to exposing Exxon Mobil for crimes against the environment, 13 Republican congressmen on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee (SSTC) have sent out letters to 17 state attorney generals , 8 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Greenpeace USA for their efforts to hold oil industry giants accountable for their actions.

Lamar Smith, Republican Congressman from Texas, was one of the 13 conservatives who are demanding “all communications since 2012” between New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman and climate change activists.

This is because earlier this year, Schneiderman gathered up his super attorney friends to launch a campaign called the Green 20 or the AGs United for Clean Power (AGUCP) against Exxon Mobil for lying about their knowledge of how the fossil fuel industry was creating climate change.

Among the NGOs sent letters includes:
• 350.org
• Climate Accountability Institute
• Climate Reality Project
• Pawa Law Group
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Rockefeller Foundation Fund
• Union of Concerned Scientists

The inquiry into Exxon stems from a 48 year old report that showed that oil executives knew about their industry’s effects on the environment and chose to keep silent for the sake of profits.

But going back to the 1940s, Exxon (formerly Humble Oil) began to distribute propaganda against the scientific community for providing research that showed their corporation was causing smog and other forms of air pollution.

Thanks to the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and a plethora of studies and investigations, it is clear that the fossil fuel industry knew about the link between their product and climate change and colluded to keep silent while purposefully misrepresenting factual information.

CIEL states on their website: “In 1957, a landmark paper by Roger Revelle and Hans Suess of the Scripps Institute upturned that conventional wisdom, demonstrating that far more CO2 would remain in the atmosphere than previously assumed, potentially accelerating the impact of global climate change.”

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (EELI) released emails showing Exxon’s role in the cover-up.

Wanting to keep their meeting private , the press was not notified and a “common interest agreement” was drawn up to protect privileged information from getting out.

As for Exxon, their fate was discussed back in January when a group of activists came together to “establish in [the] public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm.”

Chris Horner, attorney for the EELI blamed the attorney general’s “justice league” for “breaking the law” by colluding together to “silence political opposition”.

But the spirit of repression is alive and well with Exxon who is claiming 1st amendment rights and pointing to how the Green 20 is discriminating against their view point by trying to access internal documents while the company is trying to hide those documents that incriminate the company.

Claude Walker, attorney general for the Virgin Islands, has accused Exxon of purposefully defrauding the public and the federal government by “misrepresenting its knowledge of the likelihood that its products and activities have contributed and are contributing to climate change”; as well as funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a climate denying think-tank.

This is where Exxon has invoked their “constitutionally protected rights of freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process of law and constitute the common law tort of abuse of process” after Walker’s subpoena because the attorney general has discriminating against the corporation “based on viewpoint to target one side of an ongoing policy debate.”

Exxon also claims that internal documents made public were “deliberately charry-picked… to wrongly suggest definitive conclusions were reached decades ago by company researchers.”