Star-Gazette: Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. spent $2 million on a pro-drilling advertising campaign en route to becoming New Yorks second-highest spender on lobbying last year, according to a report Thursday from the states ethics board.
Exxon Mobil spent $2.1 million total on its New York lobbying in 2012, second only to the $4.2 million spent by a coalition of business interests known as the Committee to Save New York, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.
State records show the company sent $2...