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Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up
2015-12-02 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: ExxonMobil has launched a full-throttled "bully" campaign against the graduate students who recently unmasked its scandalous climate change cover-up threatening to pull funds from the university that helped bring to light its dangerous and "most consequential" lies. In a letter addressed to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and obtained by Politico, the oil giant`s vice president of Public and Government Affairs accuses a team of investigative journalism students of violating the school`s...
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Exxon takes aim at Columbia University journalists for role in climate reports
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: ExxonMobil is hurling ethics accusations against a team of Columbia University journalists whose reporting helped stoke calls for probes into whether the company deliberately misled the public about climate change. The oil giant went on the offensive in a Nov. 20 letter, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. It comes as investigations by the Columbia journalists in the Los Angeles Times and a separate report by the nonprofit website InsideClimate News continue to stoke Democratic calls for...
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FT journalists vote for strike action
2015-11-19 15:37:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Journalists at the Financial Times have voted for strike action over proposed changes to their pensions.
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How a 2012 book helped two teams journalists probe Exxon changing view of climate risks
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: With the launch of an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s climate stance by New York's attorney general, talk of wide-ranging tobacco-style litigation against Exxon and other oil and gas companies has amplified. But if the Exxon inquiry does blow up into a battle against civil and criminal charges, the oil and gas major may have one big advantage that the tobacco industry, which for years denied that smoking was injurious to human health, did not: lessons from the tobacco industry's flawed...
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ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation
2015-10-24 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: After an investigation found that ExxonMobil has been funding climate-denying organizations--despite the findings of its own scientists on climate change--the worlds fourth-largest oil company is now going after the journalists who revealed it. Evidence that ExxonMobil has been deliberately leading a campaign of misinformation about climate change for decades began cropping up after InsideClimate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning publication, led an investigation into the company. Shortly after...
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