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InsideClimate News Is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Exxon Investigation Page 2 of 2<br />

ICN, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization, previously won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2013 for The Dilbit Disaster:<br />

Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of FSI.<br />

ICN's work prompted a significant response, including the announcement of a probe of Exxon launched by Eric Schneiderman [6], New<br />

York's attorney general, under the state's regulatory disclosure and consumer protection laws. He has subsequently joined a group of 17<br />

attorneys general to press for climate action on multiple legal fronts.<br />

In addition. Reps. Mark DeSaulnier and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) have called on the Department of Justice [7] to investigate Exxon under the<br />

federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act—the same law used to investigate tobacco companies in the 1990s.<br />

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D.-R.I.) and three other congressmen wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking it to<br />

investigate ExxonMobil's past federal filings to see if the company violated securities laws by failing to adequately disclose material risks<br />

to its business posed by climate change.<br />

Environmental leaders delivered a petition with 350,000 signatures to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, urging a federal probe of<br />

whether ExxonMobil misled the public on global warming. Some 50 heads of national environmental and justice organizations [8] have<br />

endorsed the call.<br />

ICN continues to report on the issue, with its latest story detailing how the oil industry [9] has been aware of the global warming risks<br />

posed by carbon dioxide as far back as the 1960s.<br />

Published Under;<br />

Business and Accountability [10]<br />

Exxon: The Road Not Taken [11]<br />

© InsideClimate News<br />

Source URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18042016/insideclimate-news-pulitzer-prize-fmalist-exxon-investigation<br />

[1] http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken<br />

[2] http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/insideclimate-news<br />

[3] http://www.pulitzer.org/page/medal<br />

[4] http://www.ap.org/explore/seafood-from-slaves/<br />

[5] http://insideclimatenews.org/contenl/dilbit-disaster-inside-biggest-oil-spill-youve-never-heard<br />

[6] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/05112015/new-york-attomey-general-eric-schneiderman-subpoena-Exxon-climate-documents<br />

[7] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16102015/two-us-representatives-seek-justice-department-inquiry-exxon<br />

[8] http ://insideclimatenews.org/news/3 0102015/environmental-and-civil-rights-groups-call-federal-probe-exxon<br />

[9] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/13042016/climate-change-global-warming-oil-industry-radar-1960s-exxon-api-co2-fossil-fuels<br />

[10] https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/business-and-accountability-0<br />

[11] https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/exxon-road-not-taken<br />

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https://insideclimatenews.org/print/42872 8/1/2016

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