- The SEC's investigation of how Exxon Mobil values assets in a world of increasing climate change regulations is eliciting sharp reactions, with some investors seeing it as a tipping point, while others are calling it a politically motivated attack.
- But many agreed on one thing: It's a potentially transformative moment for U.S. companies, which now have to worry about regulators' scrutiny of future climate change impacts more seriously than before.
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