Teens’ Lawyers Plan to Question Tillerson on His Knowledge of Climate Change

Soon to be America's
 Secretary of
State, Rex Tillerson.

Lawyers for teenagers claiming the U.S. government failed to protect the environment from global warming plan to question under oath President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state on his knowledge of climate change.

Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson’s testimony, set for the day before the Jan. 20 inauguration, is being sought by lawyers representing 21 children and teenagers seeking to prove that oil and gas industry groups “have known about the dangers of climate change since the 1960s and have successfully worked to prevent the government” from Rex Tillerson’s. The groups, whose members include Exxon, joined the lawsuit on the side of the government to oppose the teens.

The youths from across the country claim that by perpetuating the use of fossil fuels, the government has trampled their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. They won a shot at pursuing their claims in November when an Oregon federal judge rejected the government’s request to throw out their lawsuit.

Read the Bloomberg story - “Teens’ Lawyers Plan to Question Tillerson on His Knowledge of Climate Change.”