{"id":304989,"date":"2019-12-11T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304989"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:40:28","slug":"new-york-judge-sides-with-exxon-mobil-in-environmental-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-york-judge-sides-with-exxon-mobil-in-environmental-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New York judge sides with Exxon Mobil in environmental fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York judge sided with Exxon Mobil Tuesday in a closely-watched environmental case, concluding the oil giant did not mislead investors in its climate change disclosures. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling by Barry Ostrager, a judge in the New York state court, rejected arguments by the state&#8217;s attorney general that the company duped investors by downplaying the costs of mitigating climate change. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court finds that the Office of the Attorney General failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that ExxonMobil made any material misrepresentation&#8221; of significance, Ostrager wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The decision came after a trial that included testimony from former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York judge sided with Exxon Mobil Tuesday in a closely-watched environmental case, concluding the oil giant did not mislead investors in its climate change disclosures. The ruling by Barry Ostrager, a judge in the New York state court, rejected arguments by the state&#8217;s attorney general that the company duped investors by downplaying the costs of mitigating climate change. &#8220;The court finds that the Office of the Attorney General failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that ExxonMobil made any material misrepresentation&#8221; of significance, Ostrager wrote. The decision came after a trial that included testimony from former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}