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The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
Oil Companies Alignment with Net Zero
2024-03-25 (or before) in Carbon Tracker InitiativeTagged under: Exxon | BP | Oil Industry
Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures
2024-03-04 in The GuardianDarren Woods tells Fortune consumers not willing to pay for clean-energy transition, prompting backlash from climate experts
Tagged under: Public Opinion | Net Zero | Exxon
Exxon CEO Shares "Dirty Secret" Keeping Us From Net Zero Goals | Leadership Next
2024-03-04 (or before) in YouTubeAs CEO of the energy giant, Darren Woods is leading the third-largest U.S. company through the energy transition. While Exxon Mobil is investing in low-carbo...
Tagged under: ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Finance | Net Zero | Exxon
ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action
2024-02-29 in NPRThe oil and gas giant is suing investor groups that want it to slash climate pollution. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could lead to more lawsuits against activist investors.
Tagged under: Litigation | Exxon | Activism
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
2024-02-28 in The HillThe world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists. Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from …
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation
Exxon shareholder proposal withdrawal may end lawsuit: judge | Follow This
2024-02-06 (or before) in Follow This | Green shareholders change the worldTagged under: Exxon
Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts
2024-01-01 in The GuardianBP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies to distribute more than $100bn despite public outrage
Tagged under: Exxon | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels | BP | Shell
UN climate talks have focused on renewable energy for too long says Exxon chief
2023-12-03 (or before) in Financial TimesDarren Woods tells FT that oil and gas major has a role to play in reducing emissions
Tagged under: Exxon | Renewable Energy
Fossil fuel firms spent millions on US lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest bills
2023-10-25 in The GuardianAbout 60% of oil and gas operations protected from protest due to money spent on lobbying, says Greenpeace USA report
Tagged under: Exxon | Louisiana | Fossil Fuels | Activism | Greenpeace
Addendum to 'Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)' Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019) - IOPscience
2023-09-19 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change | Exxon
How Exxon tried to twist climate science for profit
2023-09-19 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackNew internal documents reported by the Wall Street Journal illustrate exactly why thousands are taking to the street to protest fossil fuels this week.
Tagged under: Exxon | Fossil Fuels
California sues world's largest oil companies, alleging they caused billions of dollars in damages
2023-09-18 (or before) in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Climate Change | Chevron | Shell | Exxon | California | BP
New files shed light on ExxonMobil’s efforts to undermine climate science
2023-09-14 in The GuardianExecutives privately sought to downplay link between fossil fuels and climate change despite public pronouncements, WSJ reports
Tagged under: Climate Change | Exxon | Fossil Fuels
WSJ News Exclusive | Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change
2023-09-14 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoTagged under: Climate Change | Exxon
Just Stop Oil targets think tank over protest crackdown role
2023-09-08 (or before) in openDemocracyActivists targeted Policy Exchange after openDemocracy revealed it received Big Oil funding and helped draft law
Tagged under: Rishi Sunak | Exxon | Activism
Opinion: As our forests burn, oil companies are doubling down on their old business models - The Globe and Mail
2023-08-29 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & AnalysisWith the Earth in the grips of a climate crisis, fossil fuel companies shouldn’t be given a pass
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | Trees
Exxon Predicts World Will Miss Climate-Change Targets
2023-08-29 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoTagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Exxon
Maui is suing Big Oil
2023-08-15 (or before) by in exxonknews.orgThe county is seeking to recover the costs of climate-fueled disasters Big Oil knowingly caused — including increasingly destructive wildfires.
Tagged under: Exxon | Wildfires
Hoboken Lodges First State-Level Racketeering Charge in Big Oil Climate Lawsuit
2023-05-25 by in DeSmogSuing under an organized crime statute, the New Jersey city says major oil and gas companies and their chief lobbying group have “conspired to deceive the world for decades.”
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | BP
How much do fossil fuel companies owe in climate reparations?
2023-05-25 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterSaudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron are the companies that owe the most for damages to the climate
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Chevron | Shell | Economics | Exxon | BP | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance
2023-04-25 in The GuardianCities bringing climate litigation against oil majors welcome US supreme court’s decision to rebuff appeal to move cases to federal courts
Tagged under: Exxon | Fossil Fuels | Litigation
US States and Communities are Suing the Fossil Fuel Industry: Six Things You Need to Know
2023-04-24 in blog.ucsusa.orgIn an important win for climate accountability in the United States, the US Supreme Court decided that lawsuits filed in Colorado, Maryland, California, Hawai’i, and Rhode Island against fossil fuel companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Suncor, and others will remain in state courts. Now t
Tagged under: Exxon | California | Shell | Colorado State
Exxon’s new ‘advanced recycling’ plant raises environmental concerns
2023-04-10 in The GuardianAdvocates warn plants like the latest addition to the Texas complex generate hazardous pollutants and provide cover for oil giants to produce new plastic products
ExxonMobil - Wikipedia
2023-04-09 (or before) in WikipediaTagged under: Exxon
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
2023-04-07 (or before) in Science | AAASExxonMobil’s own climate models showed that fossil fuel use would cause climate warming.
Tagged under: Exxon
Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have pulled funding
2023-03-17 in The GuardianInsiders aren’t surprised as ExxonMobil, the last remaining proponent of green algae biofuel, ends research
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Exxon
Biden administration sides with climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies
2023-03-16 in The GuardianDoJ brief argues that Colorado case against energy giants ExxonMobil and Suncor should be heard in state court instead of federal
Tagged under: Exxon | Fossil Fuels | US Politics | Colorado State
Darth Vader Endorses Exxon’s ‘Destruction’ of the Earth in Adam McKay-Produced Spot — Watch
2023-03-08 by in indiewire.com“You know who loves crimes that cause immeasurable suffering and destruction? Darth Vader,” McKay said of “Love Letter to Exxon.”
Tagged under: Exxon
Exxon Retreats From Major Climate Effort to Make Biofuels From Algae
2023-02-10 (or before) in BloombergRenewable fuels made from algae was the company’s most heavily publicized climate solution.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Exxon | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | California
BP, Shell, Exxon and co. bag £1bn handout from UK government
2023-02-09 (or before) in openDemocracyExclusive: Government giveaway of CO2 permits helped fossil fuel giants achieve record-breaking profits
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Net Zero
‘Monster profits’ for energy giants reveal a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence
2023-02-09 in The GuardianLast year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels
Exxon posts record $56bn profit for 2022 in historic high for western oil industry
2023-01-31 in The GuardianCompany took home about $6.3m an hour last year as oil majors expected to break their own annual records
Tagged under: Exxon
UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’
2023-01-18 in The GuardianCriticism at Davos for big companies that, ‘like the tobacco industry’, ride roughshod over their own science
Tagged under: Exxon | Fossil Fuels
ExxonMobil: Oil giant predicted climate change in 1970s - scientists - BBC News
2023-01-13 (or before) in The BBCResearchers claim to put a number on what Exxon knew about temperature rise as early as the 1970s.
Tagged under: Exxon | Predictions | Climate Change
"Exxon Knew:" Company's climate research accurately projected global warming, study says
2023-01-12 in AxiosTagged under: Exxon | Predictions
Exxon scientists predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy,’ Harvard researchers say
2023-01-12 in Harvard GazetteIn the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Exxon | Fossil Fuels
Exxon-funded think tank calls for authoritarian crackdown on students, vicars and grandmothers – Just Stop Oil
2022-11-04 in Just Stop Oil Ð No New Oil and GasThe ExxonMobil funded death cult, the Policy Exchange, is calling for greater state intervention against ordinary folk fighting for humanity, for our rights and freedoms. While accepting the need to halt heating the world, they list a vast number of draconian powers government should adopt to stop those disrupting, to stop those calling for action
Tagged under: Exxon
Temps présent - Climat, les gros mensonges des géants du pétrole - Play RTS
2022-09-30 (or before) in rts.chIls savaient, mais ils ont nié et dissimulé la vérité sur le réchauffement climatique : les géants du pétrole, comme ExxonMobil ou Shell, étaient au courant bien avant nous de l’impact de leurs produits, grâce à leurs propres recherches menées il y a plus de 40 ans. Pourtant ils ont choisi de mettre en doute la science et d’entraver toute politique en faveur du climat. Aujourd’hui, la justice s’en mêle, suite au dépôt de dizaines de plaintes contre les compagnies pétrolières.
Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims
2022-09-17 in The GuardianFury as ‘explosive’ documents reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Activism | Exxon | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | US Politics
'No greater betrayal of humanity': Scientists take to the streets to demand climate action
2022-09-08 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)As the gulf between climate science and climate action grows, these scientists are putting their bodies on the line to demand more is done.
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Activism | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Oil and gas firms’ green investments fail to match promise of publicity – study
2022-09-08 in The GuardianBP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels
InfluenceMap Big Oil's Real Agenda on Climate Change 2022
2022-09-08 (or before) in InfluenceMapFollowing up on InfluenceMap's 2019 edition of 'Big Oil's Real Agenda', this latest report compares and contrasts the public communications, business operations, and policy engagement of 5 'supermajor' oil companies: BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies. The report provides evidence of significant inconsistencies between the companies' use of 'green claims' with their investment strategies and policy engagement on climate change.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Climate Change | Chevron | TotalEnergies
Judge Upholds $14 Million Fine in Long-running Citizen Suit Against Exxon in Texas - Inside Climate News
2022-09-02 by in Inside Climate NewsA federal judge this week rejected a third appeal by ExxonMobil in the 12-year legal battle over toxic emissions from one of the Texas-based energy giant’s Gulf Coast facilities. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a $14.25 million fine—thought to be the largest-ever fine resulting from citizen enforcement of environmental law—in […]
ExxonMobil - Aceh, Indonesia | Cohen Milstein
2022-08-03 (or before) in cohenmilstein.comCohen Milstein represents eleven Indonesian citizens suing ExxonMobil Corporation for human rights abuses allegedly committed by ExxonMobil’
Tagged under: Exxon | Indonesia
Thinktank that briefed against XR given $30k by ExxonMobil in 2017
2022-06-15 in The GuardianReport shows Policy Exchange, which called for criminalisation of climate group, previously received money from oil firm
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Exxon | Climate Justice
‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza
2022-05-12 in The GuardianMultibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners
Tagged under: Exxon | Fossil Fuels | Caribbean
The clean energy claims of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell: A mismatch between discourse, actions and investments
2022-05-02 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceThe energy products of oil and gas majors have contributed significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and planetary warming over the past century. Decarbonizing the global economy by mid-century to avoid dangerous climate change thus cannot occur without a profound transformation of their fossil fuel-based business models. Recently, several majors are increasingly discussing clean energy and climate change, pledging decarbonization strategies, and investing in alternative energies. Some even claim to be transforming into clean energy companies. Given a history of obstructive climate actions and “greenwashing&rd...
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | Finance
A pro-fossil fuel Disney ride voiced by Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye? Yes, it existed
2022-03-16 in The GuardianBuckle up for the story of Ellen’s Energy Adventure – a ride whose sympathetic stance toward oil and coal is newly relevant
Tagged under: Exxon | Coal | Fossil Fuels
How Exxon, BP and Shell help Russia pump oil and gas - CNN
2022-02-27 (or before) by in CNNThe West is promising "massive" sanctions on Moscow in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Any action on energy could
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Russia
Exxon Announces Weak Net Zero Pledge
2022-01-20 (or before) in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereThe company announced it plans to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. There are just a few teeny, tiny problems.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Chevron | Net Zero | Finance
Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications
2021-11-18 (or before) in Cell PressThis is the first computational assessment of how ExxonMobil has used language to subtly yet systematically frame public discourse about climate change. We show that ExxonMobil uses rhetoric mimicking the tobacco industry to downplay the reality and seriousness of climate change, to present fossil fuel dominance as reasonable and inevitable, and to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers. Our work is relevant to lawsuits, policy proposals, and grassroots activism seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for deceptive marketing.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
How ExxonMobil Captured COP26 – Byline Times
2021-11-03 (or before) in Byline TimesIn Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge
2021-10-29 by in DeSmog“Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes,” said ExxonMobil lobbyist Keith McCoy. “Did we join some of these ‘shadow groups’ to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that’s true. But there’s nothing illegal about that.” These are the words McCoy was caught saying on a secretly recorded video released by […]
Tagged under: Exxon
North Sea oil companies receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes
2021-09-28 in New Statesman MagazineThe UK has given firms including Exxon and Shell hundreds of millions of pounds in rebates.
Exxon splits with lobbyist who divulged climate strategy
2021-09-28 by in E&E News | Essential Energy and Environment NewsExxon Mobil Corp. has parted ways with Keith McCoy, its lobbyist who divulged aspects of the company's climate strategy in a secretly recorded video.
Tagged under: Exxon
Exxon-Influenced Senators Carved Climate Out of Infrastructure Almost Entirely
2021-07-30 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismThe latest infrastructure negotiations cut about $29 billion from the previous draft, taking most from climate funding.
Tagged under: Exxon
ExxonMobil Regularly Gives Six-Figure Sums to Brookings and CSIS | The New Republic
2021-07-17 (or before) in The New RepublicAn annual ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar institutions.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Exxon Lobbyists Paid The 6 Democrats Named In Sting Video Nearly $333,000
2021-07-13 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPostA new analysis takes a wide look at the company's influence in Arizona, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and West Virginia.
Tagged under: Exxon | US Politics
Exxon Disavows Remarks After Video Shows Lobbyists Dismissing Company’s Climate Stance
2021-07-01 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoCEO Darren Woods said Exxon lobbyists tricked into speaking on video by Greenpeace didn’t reflect the company’s positions, after they said Exxon only supports a carbon tax because it is unlikely to pass.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Greenpeace
Exxon lobbyists caught on video in Greenpeace sting, CEO apologizes - Axios
2021-07-01 (or before) by in AxiosTagged under: Exxon | Greenpeace
Inside Exxon’s playbook
2021-06-30 in Greenpeace UK - UnearthedHow America's biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Greenpeace
Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
2021-06-30 in Channel 4A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera revealing how the oil giant is using its power and influence to water down US climate legislation.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Legislation
Victory for insurgents stuns Exxon as shareholders vote for a low-carbon future - ImpactAlpha
2021-05-27 by in ImpactAlphaImpactAlpha, May 27 – In a single day, separate developments at ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell sent an unmistakable signal to oil companies and investors: ...
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | Chevron
Rebel shareholders with percent of the vote - The Washington Post
2021-05-26 in The Washington PostEXXONVOTE - Today is the showdown between ExxonMobil and rebel shareholders trying to convince the company to confront climate change and install four new independent directors. The vote will come at today's ExxonMobil annual meeting. The country's biggest pension funds have openly sided with rebel shareholders, and the votes of the major fund managers -- BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street -- hung in the balance.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Supreme Court Delivers a Victory to Big Oil
2021-05-19 in Sierra ClubNarrow ruling allows the carbon barons to keep running down the clock
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron
New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
2021-05-14 by in DeSmogWhat’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? According to newly published research from Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes and Harvard research associate Geoffrey Supran, it’s a simple four-letter word, one that carries overtones not only of […]
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
The Exxon Tax
2021-02-16 (or before) in Gernot WagnerThe Numbers Behind Exxon’s Support for a Carbon Tax
Tagged under: Exxon
How Oil and Gas Corporations Funded an Attempted Coup
2021-01-11 (or before) in GreenpeaceWashington, DC — Oil and gas corporations, including Chevron and Exxon, have donated a total of $5.4 million to the seven Senators who voted to overturn the presidential election and bolstered a violent, failed attempted coup by pro-Trump extremists [1]. Greenpeace USA Senior Climate Campaigner John Noël said: “Oil and gas corporations aided the political …
Tagged under: USA | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Greenpeace
Exxon's "emission reduction plan" doesn't pledge to cut emissions
2020-12-15 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.This semantic trick allows oil companies to “cut” emissions and grow them at the same time.
Tagged under: Exxon
Exxon's climate plan doesn't actually commit to reducing emissions
2020-12-15 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackIts tricky language is just cover for the fossil fuel giant's real plan to increase oil and gas production.
Tagged under: Exxon
How One Firm Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil (Published 2020)
2020-11-11 in The New York TimesTagged under: Exxon
Exxon Spends Millions on Facebook To Keep the Fossil Fuel Industry Alive
2020-10-22 (or before) in In These TimesAided by a right-wing political consulting firm, the company is rallying supporters to fight for oil and gas interests at every level of government.
Tagged under: Exxon | Fracking | Fossil Fuels
Exxon Turns to Academia to Try to Discredit Harvard Research - Inside Climate News
2020-10-20 in Inside Climate NewsExxonMobil is not known for its acquiescence—tenacious litigation and well-funded advertising are the oil giant’s favored methods for trying to swat away opponents. And in the latest flare-up in an ongoing battle between the company and two Harvard researchers, Exxon has now turned to the pages of an academic journal to continue its relentless self-defense. […]
Tagged under: Exxon | Litigation
Reply to Comment on 'Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)' Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019) - IOPscience
2020-10-16 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014) - IOPscience
2020-10-16 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Church of England Unloads Exxon Shares on Failed Emission Goals
2020-10-09 (or before) in BloombergIts pensions board is now fully divested from the oil giant for not meeting key climate criteria
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Economics
Exxon Projections Show Massive Emissions Increase as Quarterly Financial Losses Mount - The Energy Mix
2020-10-07 in The Energy Mix - The climate news you needExxonMobil may be plotting to increase its already enormous annual greenhouse gas emissions by 17% over the next five years,
Tagged under: Exxon | Greenhouse Gases
Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
2020-10-05 (or before) in BloombergInternal projections from one of world’s largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming
Tagged under: Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison to sue oil giants over climate change - Bring Me The News
2020-06-24 (or before) by in bringmethenews.comExxon Mobil, Koch Industries, and American Petroleum are named in the suit.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
A landmark lawsuit against Big Oil is back from the dead
2020-05-28 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.Will ExxonMobil, Shell, and friends have to pay for seawalls?
Church fund urges other ExxonMobil investors to sack board over climate
2020-04-24 in The GuardianChurch Commissioners writes to fellow shareholders ahead of protest vote at oil giant’s AGM
Tagged under: Exxon | Religion
An open letter to ExxonMobil shareholders from the Church Commissioners for England and New York State Common Retirement Fund
2020-04-24 (or before) in SEC.govTagged under: Exxon
Change climate policy now to avert oil market crisis, warns thinktank
2020-01-31 in The GuardianGovernments risk derailing global fossil fuel demand with ‘handbrake turns’ in future
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron
Exxon Mobil Beats New York’s Climate-Change Accounting Case
2020-01-06 (or before) in BloombergExxon Mobil Corp. won a closely watched trial over its accounting for the financial risks of climate change, in an outright rejection of New York state’s claim that the energy giant engaged in a cynical scheme to mislead investors for years.
Tagged under: Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Exxon’s Climate Trial Is Over, But the Legal War Is Just Beginning
2020-01-06 (or before) in BloombergA dozen “public nuisance” lawsuits accuse fossil fuel giants of hiding, and denying, their knowledge of global warming.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Exxon found not guilty of fraud over true cost of climate regulations
2019-12-10 in The GuardianJudge says prosecutors did not prove oil giant had misled investors – but does not absolve it of responsibility for global heating
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Exxon’s Credit Rating Outlook Lowered by Moody’s on Cash Burn
2019-11-20 (or before) in BloombergExxon Mobil Corp. had the outlook on its top-notch debt rating lowered by Moody’s Investors Service Inc. to negative due to a “substantial” cash burn to fund growth.
Biggest UK fund manager invested in firms it shamed over climate crisis
2019-11-07 in The GuardianExclusive: Legal & General Investment Management put extra £285m into firms such as ExxonMobil
Tagged under: Exxon | Insurance
Investors to Big Oil: Make It Rain
2019-11-05 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoInvestors want just one thing from the world’s biggest oil companies—cash—but it is becoming harder for the oil giants to deliver.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies
Fossil fuel big five 'spent €251m lobbying EU' since 2010
2019-10-24 by Sandra Laville in The GuardianReport comes amid calls for set up of firewall to protect politics from industry influence
Tagged under: BP | Lobbying | European Union | Oil Industry | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | Fossil Fuels
Exxon sowed doubt about climate crisis, House Democrats hear in testimony
2019-10-23 by Emily Holden in The GuardianSubcommittee laid out four decades of evidence just a day after oil behemoth began a trial over misleading investors
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Exxon | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
As big climate trial starts, Exxon buys Google ads to defend itself
2019-10-22 in mashable.com"You would totally expect them to do that."
Tagged under: Exxon
ExxonMobil faces trial over allegations of misleading investors on climate crisis
2019-10-22 in The GuardianNew York lawsuit alleges company was ‘exposed to far greater risk from climate change than investors were led to believe’
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
2019-10-09 in The GuardianNew data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Africa | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
Major global firms accused of concealing their environmental impact
2019-06-16 in The GuardianMore than 700 companies, including Amazon, Tesco and ExxonMobil, lack transparency, campaign group claims
Tagged under: Exxon
Revealed: Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation, documents show
2019-06-12 in The GuardianRevealed: documents from the early 1990s show oil giant looked to make tax-exempt donations to promote the company’s interests
Tagged under: Exxon
Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report
2019-03-22 in The GuardianAd campaigns hide investment in a huge expansion of oil and gas extraction, says InfluenceMap
Tagged under: BP | Exxon | Climate Change | Chevron | Fossil Fuels
BP faces shareholder challenge over carbon targets
2018-12-10 in The GuardianCompany is among energy firms being urged to set goals in line with Paris agreement
Tagged under: BP | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Chevron
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (Published 2018)
2018-08-01 by in The New York TimesWe knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
Tagged under: CO2 | US Politics | Climate Change | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Economics
On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
2018-01-01 in The GuardianBenjamin Franta: Somebody cut the cake – new documents reveal that American oil writ large was warned of global warming at its 100th birthday party.
Tagged under: Exxon | Greenhouse Gases
The fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia | Benjamin Franta and Geoffrey Supran
2017-03-13 in The GuardianBenjamin Franta and Geoffrey Supran: Corporate capture of academic research by the fossil fuel industry is an elephant in the room and a threat to tackling climate change.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron
George Monbiot on climate change and Big Tobacco
2006-09-19 in The GuardianFor years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them? Exxon's involvement is well known, but not the strange role of Big Tobacco. In the first of three extracts from his new book, George Monbiot tells a bizarre and shocking new story.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
1998 American Petroleum Institute Global Climate Science Communications Team Action Plan - Climate Files
1998-04-03 in Climate Files - Hard to Find Documents All in One PlaceApril 1998, American Petroleum Institute’s secret plan was leaked – the Global Climate Science Communications Plan. The plan was created just months after the Kyoto Protocol was signed in December 1997. It was developed by representatives from Exxon (specifically Randy Randol), Chevron, Southern Company and representatives from conservative and libertarian organizations. The plan includes a multimillion dollar, […]
Tagged under: Chevron | Exxon | Kyoto Agreement
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