Exxon found not guilty of misleading investors in climate-change lawsuit

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 2 points (+2|-0)

Nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve ExxonMobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change through the emission of greenhouse gases in the production of its fossil fuel products," Ostrager wrote. "But ExxonMobil is in the business of producing energy, and this is a securities fraud case, not a climate-change case.

This title seems very misleading

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[–] smallpond [OP] 1 points (+2|-1)

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I chose the article because it was the least-misleading writeup of the result of the case that I could find - at least they mentioned 'misleading investors' in the title. Certainly room for improvement.

Edit: 'could find' from a cursory scan of search results from major-type news agencies

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[–] PhunkyPlatypus 1 points (+1|-0)

I dig it. I just wanted to point on for the headline readers that it doesn't seem like this lawsuit was solely based on climate change, but more on misleading investors.

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Exxon found not guilty of misleading investors in climate-change lawsuit

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