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The US government has dropped a two-year investigation into how ExxonMobil Corporation factors climate-change regulations into its calculations of the value of its assets, the company said on Friday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission informed the energy giant in a letter dated Thursday that it would not recommend an enforcement action against the company at this time.
ExxonMobil cooperated with the inquiry, producing more than 4.2 million pages of documents, company spokesman Scott Silvestri said.

“After a thorough investigation, including a review of these documents, the SEC issued its closure letter,” he said.
Silvestri added that ExxonMobil is confident its financial reporting meets all legal and accounting requirements.
The SEC letter including standard language stating that the decision should not be construed as an exoneration and leaving open the possibility of further future action. The SEC declined to comment.
Exxon faces separate investigations in New York and Massachusetts into whether it misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change and how the issue could affect its business.
In March, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by ExxonMobil aimed at the stopping the investigations, dismissing as “implausible” the company’s allegations that the states were acting in bad faith.
‘Alarming’ milestones reported for storms, droughts, heatwaves and ice melt
“Our investigation remains ongoing,” said Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood. “We’re gratified that multiple courts have now rejected Exxon’s arguments regarding our investigation — fully dismissing Exxon’s lawsuit against our office, and ordering Exxon and its accounting firm to produce the documents we subpoenaed.”
The Irving, Texas-based oil company has called the two state investigations politically motivated.
“As we have said all along, the SEC is the appropriate entity to examine issues related to impairment, reserves and other communications important to investors,” Silvestri said.
The SEC investigation began under the Obama administration. Its decision to drop the case came on the same day that the Trump administration proposed rolling back car-mileage standards, a move that would weaken one of the federal government’s chief weapons against climate change.


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An Exxon service station in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo: AP

FILE PHOTO: An airplane comes in for a landing above an Exxon sign at a gas station in the Chicago suburb of Norridge, Illinois, U.S., October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo

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A polar bear in the Franklin Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago last year. Ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year because of climate change. Photo: AP

According to recent research from a global collaboration of scientists, the Antarctic ice sheet has tripled its rate of ice loss over the last 25 years. (Jill Schensul/The Record/TNS)

This photograph taken on July 25, 2018, shows pedestrians walking in a 'green corridor' around Garibaldi Street in Lyon, which have been made to fight against global warming. Whenever there is a heatwave in France, Lyon is the first in line, a situation that forces authorities to seek solutions to fight against 'heat islands' in the city. / AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK

This May 2016 photo provided by NOAA shows bleaching and some dead coral around Jarvis Island, which is part of the U.S. Pacific Remote Marine National Monument. Scientists found 95 percent of the coral is dead in what had been one of the world's most lush and isolated tropical marine reserve. Warmer water is repeatedly causing mass global bleaching events to Earth’s fragile coral reefs. Before 1998 there had been no global mass bleaching events _ which turn the living coral white and often leads to death. But there have been three from 1998 on. (NOAA/Bernardo Vargas-Angel via AP, File)

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Oil giant faces separate state investigations into whether it misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change


Oil giant faces separate state investigations into whether it misled investors about its knowledge of climate change


US government drops investigation into Exxon’s climate change response

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Oil giant faces separate state investigations into whether it misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change