According to a new report by the watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), ExxonMobil sent teams of lobbyists to meet with industry-friendly Republican state attorneys general to help stave off a flurry of investigations about the company’s role in obscuring the link between carbon dioxide and climate change, a cover-up which extends as far back as the 1970’s.

The news comes the same week that the environmental advocacy group Conservation Law Foundation filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for placing Massachusetts communities into harm's way, as a result of this cover-up and its climate change implications.

ExxonMobil is currently being investigated by as many as 20 different state attorneys general for this cover-up, which DeSmog has covered extensively. Exxon has decried the investigations as “politically motivated” witch-hunts designed to intimidate the company and gain political points with American voters.

However, the CMD report specifically calls out a private meeting between Exxon lobbyists and GOP state prosecutors that took place in July in Colorado at a Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) summit. (You can also listen to audio and read a transcript from the summit.)

http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/30/republican-attorneys-general-met-secretly-exxon-stop-climate-change-investigations