Senators demand US halt inquiries into climate denial by oil companies

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Five hardline conservative senators, including former presidential candidate Ted Cruz, have demanded the US justice department stop all investigations into whether oil and gas companies lied to the public and shareholders about climate change.

“We write today to demand that the Department of Justice (DoJ) immediately cease its ongoing use of law enforcement resources to stifle private debate on one of the most controversial public issues of our time,” the senators wrote in a letter dated 25 May.

The letter intends to forestall a federal investigation like those begun by states around the US. In New York last year, the state attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, began an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil lied to its investors about the dangers of climate change, and subpoenaed the oil giant for records.

The justice department did not immediately confirm that it has any such investigations in progress or under consideration. In March, the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said the question was discussed and information “referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for what we could take action on”.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/senators-climate-change-denial-oil-companies

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Alan Yuhas
Thursday 26 May 2016 21.02 BST

[cstanleytech]

1. Personally I would say that they were overstepping their bounds. nt

[Scientific]

3. The anti-conservative Republicans double down on Ignorance

The Stupid Party (R). The Greedy Party (R). The anti-conservative party that thinks using the word is all they actually have to do to be conservative. The Stupid Greedy Party (R).

[aggiesal]

6. GOP = Greedy One Percent n/t

[hobbit709]

4. Ted Carnival Cruz is living down to his name again.

Adrift, lost at sea, and full of shit.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. These guys are subverting our government for private enterprise

arrest them, just throw their sorry heads in jail

[Nirgendwo]

7. There is no "debate"

Climate change is really happening and they did and still are trying to deny it.

Also, Cigarets really DO cause cancer.

[Feeling the Bern]

8. Dear five conservaturd senators: Fuck you! Signed, any American with a working intellect

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. As companies like Exxon, Shell, Koch, Halliburton, stifle Green Energy advancements...

"Also on Wednesday, Exxon’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, defied shareholders and activists who have called on the company to acknowledge climate change and change its behaviors. “Until we have [breakthroughs in green technology], just saying ‘turn the taps off’ is not acceptable to humanity,” he said. “The world is going to have to continue using fossil fuels, whether they like it or not."

Murderers! Genociders! Destroyers of the Earth! Must. Be. Stopped.

[Shrike47]

10. Hey, Exxon et al. are just getting what they paid for, immunity!

[rpannier]

11. Yeah... they need that money

to investigate Benghazi or the death of Vince Foster or the birth certificate or for armed guards around bathrooms

[lonestarnot]

12. And Whitewater. Snort.

[certainot]

13. those stupid motherfuckers are trying to kill us

and destroy the planet

they can be protested at at least 100 universities, because they endorse global warming denial on hundreds of rw radio stations that do the groundwork repetition of denial needed by suicidal fuckups like cruz.

here's a short list of 268 limbaugh stations by state and university (90- an incomplete list). protesting the university raises the discussion, which scares the crap out of the republicans, they will howl, media will notice, and fleeing advertisers will bankrupt rw radio-

rw radio getting a free speech free ride by the left is the only reason this is still an 'issue' and deniers can even run for office and win.

ALABAMA 8 Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 2 Arizona St. 1, Arizona 1
ARKANSAS 3 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7 Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 4 Wisconsin 4

[Dont call me Shirley]

19. Stupid Mother-Fuckers the Economic Royalists are!

[cynzke]

14. OF COURSE NOT.....

Why should the American people deserve the truth?

[sinkingfeeling]

15. What authority does a handful of Senators have to

tell a Cabinet department what to do?

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. It's unsurprising that Biblical-literalist young-earth creationists find science "controversial"

climate-change denialism by oil companies is really a lot more like tobacco companies saying "no, cigarettes don't cause cancer!" though. It's certainly not "private debate".

[Democat]

17. Don't investigate corporations destroying the planet

Do investigate what type of server Clinton used?

Republicans need to be voted out of office.

[jpak]

18. BENGHAZI!!!!11111

oh wait...