We commend Attorney General Schneiderman for launching this investigation. For decades, scientists have known about the reality of climate change and the existential threat it poses. It is difficult to believe one of the richest multinational corporations was not aware of this too -- and recent reporting indicates that they indeed were. If Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel companies were aware of the perils of climate change at the same time as they reaped hundreds of billions by making the problem worse and lied to their investors and the public, they committed a crime against the planet and every family that lives on it. We urge other state Attorneys General and federal investigators to follow Attorney General Schneiderman’s lead on climate change.

1199SEIU

350.org

350NYC

ALIGN: Alliance for a Greater New York

Alliance for a Green Economy

Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition

Campaign for Renewable Energy in Ithaca

Carbon Tax Center

Catskill MountainKeeper

Center for Popular Democracy

Center for Working Families

Citizen Action of NY

Coalition for Economic Justice in Buffalo

CWA District 1

El Puente

Environmental Action

Environmental Advocates of New York

Good Old Lower East Side

Green Education and Legal Fund

Make the Road NY

Metro Justice, of Rochester

New York Carbon Tax Initiative

New York Communities for Change

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

NY State Nurses Association

NYC Environmental Justice Alliance

Partnership for Onondaga Creek

People’s Climate Movement NY

PUSH Buffalo

Rochester People's Climate Coalition

SEIU 32BJ

Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter

Teamsters Joint Council 16

Tompkins County Climate Protection

UPROSE

Working Families Party