A.G. investigating whether Exxon hid risks of climate change Schneiderman focuses on period during global price collapse Exxon Mobil Corp. is headed to a courtroom in New York for the first time to try to block the state’s demand for accounting documents about how climate change will affect its finances. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, probing whether the company and its accountants tried to hide the risk from investors and the public, sued Exxon and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on Oct. 14 in a bid to force them to comply with a subpoena issued in August. Oral arguments are scheduled for Monday before Justice Barry Ostrager in state court in Manhattan. Schneiderman seeks files related to PwC’s audits of Exxon, including documents about accounting and reporting of oil and gas reserves, evaluation of assets for potential impairment charges or write-downs, energy price projections and projected carbon cost estimates, according to […]