The Democratic Party’s draft 2016 platform and 2016 Democratic presidential candidates , Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, have called for the Justice Department and several state prosecutors to investigate fossil fuel companies for misleading the public on global warming. Thus according to Fox News (June, 2016): “The Democratic Party's draft platform calls for the Justice Department to join several state prosecutors in investigating whether fossil fuel companies misled the public on global warming -- marking an escalation in a controversial campaign that critics liken to censorship. As first reported by Inside Climate News, the committee drafting the party platform inserted the measure last Friday. The measure called on “the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change," according to the committee website… Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have called for probes into Exxon over whether they misled the public on climate change” ( “Democratic draft platform seeks DOJ probe of fossil fuel companies”, FoxNews, 29 June 2016: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/29/democratic-draft-platform-seeks-doj-probe-fossil-fuel-companies.html ).