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Warning to Corporate Counsel: If State AGs Can Do This to ExxonMobil, How Safe Is Your Company?

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 5:11 p.m.

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Corporations, Securities, & Antitrust Practice Group Podcast

Nation-states have long fought wars for control of oil. In a novel development, American states are now fighting a war over control of oil\\u2014not with one state attempting to take oil from another, but with some states attempting to deny its use to other states. In 2015, New York\\u2019s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, began an investigation of ExxonMobil. Then, at a news conference held in New York City on March 29, 2016, Schneiderman said that he and a group of other attorneys general were looking at “creative legal theories\\u201d to bring about “the beginning of the end of our addiction to fossil fuel.\\u201d\\xa0The group is comprised of seventeen attorneys general, representing fifteen states, the District of Columbia, and one territory.\\xa0Opposing these attorneys general from mostly “blue states\\u201d are attorneys general from twenty-seven mostly “red states.\\u201d\\xa0Professor Baker\\xa0joined us to discuss his article:\\xa0"Warning to Corporate Counsel: If State AGs Can Do This to ExxonMobil, How Safe Is Your Company?"

Featuring:\\xa0

  • Prof. John S. Baker, Jr.,\\xa0Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center & Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University Law Center
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