The Guardian is reporting ExxonMobil has asked a federal court in Texas to throw out a subpoena from New York state that would force the oil company to hand over decades of documents as part of a wide-ranging inquiry into whether it misled investors about climate change risks. Last year, InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that beginning in 1977, Exxon concealed its own findings that fossil fuels cause global warming.
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