U.S. states agreed to keep Exxon climate-deception probe secret: here’s why

As far back as the 1970s, Exxon conducted research that confirmed the occurrence of climate change—and that burning fossil fuels is a major contributor to it. But the company—now ExxonMobil—largely kept that research under wraps, while funding campaigns that denied the science of climate change for decades. This deception came to… …read more