U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) turned up the heat on ExxonMobil and its congressional accomplices on Wednesday, publicly and passionately coming to the defense of her state’s attorney general, Maura Healey, in her ongoing fight to hold Big Oil accountable for climate crimes.
Healey and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, along with eight environmental organizations, were issued subpoenas last week by the head of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), seeking information and documents related to their ExxonKnew investigations.
As Inside Climate News reports:
The move was decried immediately as an oil-soaked “abuse of power,” with green groups pointing to campaign contributions from fossil fuel corporations to members of the committee, and Healey explicitly stating she would not comply.
Warren, in a series of tweets on Wednesday, similarly blasted the congressional maneuver, which she painted as an example of Exxon wielding disproportionate influence over lawmakers:
Warren concluded her tweet-storm with words of warning for Smith and ExxonMobil: “you picked a fight with the wrong state & the wrong AG.”
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