40 CLIMATE ACTIVISTS sign letter to US Federal Attorney General Loretta Lynch demanding investigation of ExxonMobil for alleged fraudulent public deception over climate change

40 climate activists signed the following letter in 2016 to US Federal Attorney General lLoretta Lynch demanding investigation of ExxonMobil for alleged fraudulent public deception over climate change: “Dear Attorney General Lynch, As leaders of some of the nation’s environmental, indigenous peoples and civil rights groups, we’re writing to ask that you initiate a federal probe into the conduct of ExxonMobil. New revelations in the Los Angeles Times and the Pulitzer-prize-winning InsideClimate News strongly suggest that the corporation knew about the dangers of climate change even as it funded efforts at climate denial and systematically misled the public. Given the damage that has already occurred from climate change—particularly in the poorest communities of our nation and our planet—and that will certainly occur going forward, these revelations should be viewed with the utmost apprehension. They are reminiscent—though potentially much greater in scale—than similar revelations about the tobacco industry. These journalists have provided a remarkable roadmap to this corporation’s potential misconduct. We would ask that you follow that map wherever it may lead, employing all the tools at your disposal to uncover the truth. Signed…”, the numerous climate activist signatories notably included May Boeve and Bill McKibben ( Founders of 350.org), RL Miller (President of Climate Hawks Vote), David Yarnold (President of the Audubon Society) and James Hansen (Director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program, Earth Institute, 100-Nobel-Laureate Columbia University). The complete list of signatories is as follows:

Margie Alt, Executive Director of Environment America

Rameen Aminzadeh, Beats Rhymes & Relief

Ana Maria Archila, Andrew Friedman, Brian Kettenring, Popular Democracy

Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons, Founders of Bioneers

Lydia Avila, Energy Action Coalition

Darryl Baskerville, Greensboro4Justice

Jimmy Betts, Beyond Extreme Energy

Sally Bingham, President and Founder of Interfaith Power and Light

May Boeve, Bill McKibben, Founders of 350.org

Sr. Joan Brown, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light

Dominique Browning, Moms Clean Air Force

Michael Brune, Executive Director of Sierra Club

Robert Bullard, Author and John Muir Award winner, 2013

Anne Butterfield, President of Clean Energy Action

Andrea Carmen, Executive Director of International Indian Treaty Council

Patrick Carolan, Franciscan Action Network

Piper Carter, The Foundation of Women in Hip Hop

Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University

Faith Gemmill, Executive Director of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands)

Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network

Russell Greene, J.A.M.N.

Christopher Hale, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

Ross Hammond, ForestEthics

James Hansen, Director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program, Columbia University Earth Institute

Christina Hardy, Neighbors United of Southeast Greensboro, NC

Reverend Fletcher Harper, Executive Director of Greenfaith

Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch

David Helvarg, Executive Director of Blue Frontier

Katie Hoffman, Resilience Collaborative, LLC

Lisa Hoyos, Director and Co-Founder of Climate Parents

Reverend Nelson Johnson, Beloved Community Center

Gene Karpinski, President of League of Conservation Voters

Ken Kimmell, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists

Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska

Deacon Jerry Kotas, Colorado Interfaith Power and Light

Steve Kretzmann, Executive Director and Founder of Oil Change International

Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defense Fund

Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth

Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA

Patti Lynn, Executive Director of Corporate Accountability International

Richard Mabion, President of the Kansas City, Kansas NAACP Branch, and the first Black ExCom Board member for the Kansas Sierra Club (2012)

Mark Magaña,GreenLatinos

RL Miller, President of Climate Hawks Vote

Toure Muhammad, Bean Soup Times

Matt Nelson, Managing Director of Presente.org

Brant Olson, Campaign Director at Climate Truth

Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth

Brandon Ross, Freddie Gray Project

Aldo Seoane, Wica Agli

Cindy Shogan, Executive Director of Alaska Wilderness League

Reverend Fred Small, President of Creation Coalition

Gus Speth, Former Dean Yale School of Forestry and the Environment

Tom Steyer, Founder of NextGen Climate

Rich Stolz, Executive Director of OneAmerica

Kieran Suckling, Executive Director of the Center for Biological Diversity

Rhea Suh, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council

Franz Teplitz, Green America

Vien Truong, Director of Green for All

Joe Uehlein, Executive Director of Labor Network for Sustainability

Trip Van Noppen, President of Earthjustice

Clara Vonrich, Divest-Invest Philanthropy

Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome, Director of Federal Policy of WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Maureen Yancey “Ma Dukes”, J Dilla Foundation

David Yarnold, President of the Audubon Society

Reverend Lennox Yearwood, President of Hip Hop Caucus

Elijah Zarlin, Climate Campaigns Director, CREDO

A Philip Randolph Institute

Divest Invest Individual

Ecumenical Poverty Initiative

The Gathering for Justice/Justice League NYC

(“The Department of Justice must investigate ExxonMobil”, 350.org, 2016: https://350.org/the-department-of-justice-must-investigate-exxonmobil/ ).