Warren Wants To Make It A Crime For Corporations To Lie To Regulators

Will Peischel, Mother Jones
Tue, 11/12/2019 - 10:23am

In light of recent revelations that ExxonMobil determined as far back as 1982 that humankind had contributed to climate change and then withheld that knowledge from the public for almost four decades, Elizabeth Warren released a plan on Tuesday to make it a crime for corporations to knowingly spread misinformation.

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Warren Wants To Make It A Crime For Corporations To Lie To Regulators

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