Here we go again. The Attorneys General of Minnesota and Washington, D.C., recently filed lawsuits accusing oil companies of covering up climate change for decades. Last winter New York state finally lost its anti-Exxon legal crusade, after nearly four years of investigating. A Democratic-appointed state judge tossed that lawsuit, calling its claims “hyperbolic.”The new cases, against Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Koch Industries, dredge up old internal documents, but they look political from top to bottom. Minnesota’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 19, 2020 20:59 UTC