The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Exxon Mobil is suing two activist investors to prevent their proposal calling for emissions cuts from coming to a vote of shareholders. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe reports that in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Sunday, Exxon accused the investors, Arjuna Capital and Follow This, of abusing the process for proposing shareholder votes to advance their priorities with votes "calculated to diminish the company's existing business." Arjuna filed a proposal in December for a non-binding resolution that urged Exxon to accelerate its plans to reduce its carbon emissions and expand the scope of the emissions it measures to include its suppliers and customers. Follow This joined in support of the proposal shortly thereafter, according to the complaint. The proposal "does not seek to improve Exxon Mobil's economic performance or create shareholder value," Exxon said in the complaint, but is instead "constraining and micromanaging" the company's operations. A court ruling in favour of Exxon could generate stricter scrutiny of the kinds of shareholder proposals that companies allow to be put to a vote in the future.