Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s ties to Russia represent only one of the obstacles that could block his path into Donald Trump’s Cabinet — and each of them offer Democrats a chance to inflict some political damage on the potential secretary of State.Tillerson would also face certain grilling in the Senate about the investigations being pursued by Democratic state attorneys general into allegations that Exxon spent decades deceiving the public about its research on man-made climate change. And that’s on top of Exxon’s stakes in western Canada’s massive oil-sands fields, which environmentalists have labeled a danger to the health of …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
