"Lawyers for a group of teenagers suing the U.S. government in a climate change case have asked the government and the oil industry's leading trade group to turn over emails sent and received by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson using an alias address while he was running Exxon Mobil.
'It's possible that Rex Tillerson was communicating with people in government related to climate and energy policy using that email address,' Julia Olson, a lawyer for the teenagers, said on Monday, referring to the alias address Wayne.Tracker@exxonmobil.com.
Tillerson left Exxon Mobil Corp, where he had been chief executive and chairman, in December, and also stepped down then as chairman of industry trade group the American Petroleum Institute.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office, which is probing whether Exxon misled shareholders and the public about climate change, wrote to a judge last week accusing the company of not previously disclosing the alias and Tillerson's communications through it."
Emily Flitter reports for Reuters March 20, 2017.
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