On a scale of one-to-please-don't-do-this-to-me,Watch Mother of Mine Online how absolutely pumped are you to read about yet another sketchy government email scandal? And yet, here we are.
This time, it ensnares newly-appointed Secretary of State Rex Wayne Tillerson, who used an alias email account back while he was chairman and CEO of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil Corp. The news comes to us via the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
SEE ALSO: The White House just plagiarized an ExxonMobil press releaseWriting under the alias Wayne Tracker, Tillerson reportedly used a second email account to talk with a select group of colleagues about the dangers of climate change, among other matters, from at least 2008-2015. (Tillerson's middle name is Wayne.)
Schneiderman's office, along with the attorneys general of Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are investigating Exxon for misleading investors about the connection between fossil fuel burning and climate damage, despite having researched the issue since at least the 1970s.
The New York attorney general's office requested email correspondence from company officials, and found dozens of documents in which someone by the name of "Wayne Tracker" is mentioned. Now Schneiderman and his team say Exxon didn't acknowledge that the "Wayne Tracker" account was used by Tillerson, which means the company didn't comply with a court order to hand over all relevant correspondence.
Exxon Mobil confirmed to Bloombergthat Tillerson did, indeed, use an account by the name of Wayne Tracker.
"To realize that Exxon hasn't been complying is really disturbing," said Jamie Henn, the communications director at 350.org, a group building political support to address climate change. "I think the takeaway from that is, one, there's still a lot of dirt that needs to be turned up. And, two, we need to put a lot more effort into this."
Naomi Ages, who heads Greenpeace's climate liability project, questioned whether Tillerson misled shareholders and the public on the risks posed by burning fossil fuels while—from the privacy of his Wayne Tracker account—he discussed those risks more plainly.
"This is a significant development in Schneiderman’s investigation into what Exxon knew about climate change, when it knew it, and what the company did to conceal it," Ages said in a statement.
The administration of President Donald Trump has been plagued by a series of email scandals over its first two months. Some of Trump's closest advisors—Jared Kushner, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon—all still had Republican National Committee emails in the days following Trump's inauguration even though the RNC server had been hacked during the presidential campaign. Emails from new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt show he often discussed how to fight governmental climate regulations with members of the fossil fuel industry during Pruitt's time as Oklahoma attorney General. And of course, Vice President Mike Pence was recently found to be using a personal email account to conduct governmental affairs during his time as the governor of Indiana.
So! Tillerson's newest scandal seems about on par for the new White House, though he's the first such representative we know who used an alias—long live Wayne Tracker.
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