Rockefeller, Snowe Attack Exxon Mobil for Climate Change Denial

[Rose Siding]

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In the three-page letter obtained by Inside the Beltway, the senators say it's their understanding that Exxon Mobil is "the primary funder of no fewer than 29 climate-change denial front groups in 2004 alone......Exxon Mobil has spent more than $19 million since the late 1990s on a strategy of 'information laundering,' or enabling a small number of professional skeptics working through scientific-sounding organizations to funnel their viewpoints" through various media.

"Exxon Mobil and its partners in denial have manufactured controversy, sown doubt and impeded progress with strategies all-too reminiscent of those used by the tobacco industry for so many years," the senators charge.

They go so far as to request that, for starters, Mr. Tillerson "publicly acknowledge both the reality of the climate change and the role of humans in causing or exacerbating it. Second, Exxon Mobil should repudiate its climate-change denial campaign and make public its funding history.

"Finally, we believe that there would be a benefit to the United States if one of the world's largest carbon emitters headquartered here devoted at least some of the money it has invested in climate-change denial pseudo-science to global remediation efforts."

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