Pressure on Exxon Mobil and the energy industry increased on Wednesday with the release of a new cache of decades-old industry documents about climate change, even as Exxon pushed back against efforts to investigate the company over its climate claims through the years...Alan Jeffers, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil, called the new allegations absurd.“To suggest that we had definitive knowledge about human-induced climate change before the world’s scientists is not a credible thesis,” he said.Four attorneys general are investigating Exxon Mobil’s public statements and private scientific knowledge over the years, and the company struck back on Wednesday in a filing in Texas against Claude Earl Walker, the attorney general of the United States Virgin Islands, and a private law firm working with his office on the investigation...