Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben asked whether Exxon Mobil broke the law in its conduct on climate change in his ‘Opposing View’ editorial in USA Today.

From the article:

USA TODAY has barely written about the undisputed facts of what could be the biggest corporate scandal of all time: ExxonMobil, largest fossil fuel company on earth, knew all that there was to know about climate change 25 years ago.

Its scientists sampled CO2 in the atmosphere, calculated how much the earth’s temperature would rise, and even provided the data that helped the company bid on leases in the fast-melting Arctic. Meanwhile, the company helped found and fund the front groups that worked to impede action that would have let the planet react in time to this growing crisis…