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Posts in Exxon

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  Let’s Name the Antarctic Larsen C Iceberg #ExxonKnew

  Andy Rowell, June 23, 2017
  "Exxon's climate denial created this iceberg. It should be named after it too".
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  Comey Sacking: Just Don’t Mention Russia (or Exxon, the Arctic and Oil)

  Andy Rowell, May 10, 2017
  Washington DC is still reeling this morning with the news that Donald Trump yesterday sacked FBI director, James Comey. Ostensibly, the White House is saying that Comey’s firing is all about his botched investigation into Clinton’s emails. But everyone knows that is not the truth.
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  Shareholders criticise Exxon for “putting itself and its investors at risk” over climate

  Andy Rowell, April 25, 2017
  The oil giant may have its man of choice in the White House and its old boss as Secretary of State, but Exxon is once again coming under pressure over its stance on climate change.
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  Now “Climate Kids” Demand “Wayne Tracker” Emails from Government and API

  Andy Rowell, March 21, 2017
  Two landmark legal cases are becoming intertwined after the Attorneys representing 21 youth plaintiffs demanded that the US Government and American Petroleum Institute hand over a series of alias emails that were used by Rex Tillerson, then head of Exxon, to discuss climate change.
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  Release: Oil companies’ flawed energy forecasts risk billions in investor capital

  David Turnbull, March 13, 2017
  Oil companies including ExxonMobil, BP and Shell are risking billions of dollars of investor capital, by basing decisions on distorted claims about the future of energy, according to a new report.
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  A fading future for the tar sands

  Adam Scott, March 10, 2017
  Oil majors are dumping Canada’s tar sands assets and investors are walking away from new projects. It’s the latest sign that the massive expansion the industry planned at the start of this decade is quickly falling apart. Canada’s status as one of the highest cost, highest carbon sources of oil is hurting the industry and...
  Continue reading 'A fading future for the tar sands'.
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  Trump team botches celebration of years-old dirty Exxon plans

  David Turnbull, March 7, 2017
  Trump’s botched celebration of Exxon comes while the President’s team works to dismantle environmental policies and institutions that were put in place to protect communities like those along the fence-lines of refineries and manufacturing plants in the Gulf Coast.
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  Could Climate Villain Exxon Walk Free?

  Andy Rowell, February 6, 2017
  Last year Exxon was on the ropes, reeling from public exposure of decades of deceit on climate. Now, things are looking up. But who will have the last say?
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  Rex Looks Set to Cement Oil and State Together

  Andy Rowell, January 24, 2017
  Even in their wildest dreams the oil boys at Exxon could never have imagined that their man would actually make it to one of the top jobs in the US Government. But this now looks likely after the Senate Foreign Relations committee narrowly voted to approve ex-Exxon boss, T-Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State yesterday.
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  Rubio Still Undecided on Rex

  Andy Rowell, January 17, 2017
  As we edge ever closer to a full-blown Trump Presidency, there is still an outside chance that oilman Rex Tillerson may not make it through the confirmation process.