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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Exxon Mobil Corp. fought back against New York’s attorney general in court
Friday, calling his allegations of “sham” climate change accounting “
reckless and false.”
A brief filed in a New York state court repeatedly accuses Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman (D) of “pandering,” saying that his office gave
reporters the briefing before filing it, showing the political motivation
behind the ongoing case.
“Filled with inflammatory, reckless, and false allegations of an ‘ongoing
fraudulent scheme’ and ‘sham’ business practices, the attorney general’s
brief was filed with this court minutes before detailed press accounts
appeared describing his baseless claims,” Exxon attorneys wrote.
“No further evidence is required to establish the political motivation of
the attorney general’s fruitless year-and-a-half long investigation
pursuing his ever-shifting and unraveling investigative theories,” they
said.
Schneiderman has been investigating since 2015 whether Exxon misled the
public and investors about what it knew about climate change and its effects
on the company’s bottom line.
Exxon has been fighting to stop the investigation, saying that the attorney
general has improper political motives and the company has done nothing
wrong.
Last week, Schneiderman told the court that he found evidence that Exxon was
likely misleading investors regarding the “proxy cost” that it applies
for accounting purposes to reflect the costs of potential policies to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
Specifically, Exxon was using one proxy cost internally and a different one
externally, Schneiderman said.
Exxon didn’t deny in its brief that it uses different cost figures for
different purposes but said that is not illegal.
“ExxonMobil has not said that it relied on one set of figures for all
purposes, and a reasonable investor would not draw such a conclusion from
ExxonMobil’s public statements,” it wrote, saying that the costs of global
climate policies’ impact on energy demand is different from the effects of
potential regulations on specific projects. | l****z
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