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Climate change and Exxon Mobile's greed: Letters
2015-10-24 03:07:22| Chemicals - Topix.net
Climate change: The Guardian recently published a scorching piece by Bill McKibben raging against Exxon Mobil, which McKibben claims "knowingly ... helped organize the most consequential lie in human history," following the revelation by their own scientists that fossil fuels would create disastrous changes in climate. McKibben says Exxon Mobile organized and funded a campaign of disinformation and doubt: " t seems crucial simply to say, for the record, the truth: This company had the singular capacity to change the course of world history for the better and instead it changed that course for the infinitely worse.
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How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research
2015-10-23 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Throughout much of the 1980s, Exxon earned a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research. It sponsored workshops, funded academic research and conducted its own high-tech experiments exploring the science behind global warming. But by 1990, the company, in public, took a different posture. While still funding select research, it poured millions into a campaign that questioned climate change. Over the next 15 years, it took out prominent ads in the Washington Post, the Wall Street...
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Exxon sowed doubt about climate science for decades by stressing uncertainty
2015-10-23 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideCllimate: As he wrapped up nine years as the federal government's chief scientist for global warming research, Michael MacCracken lashed out at ExxonMobil for opposing the advance of climate science. His own great-grandfather, he told the Exxon board, had been John D. Rockefeller's legal counsel a century earlier. "What I rather imagine he would say is that you are on the wrong side of history, and you need to find a way to change your position," he wrote. Addressed to chairman Lee Raymond on the letterhead...
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Environmentalists, senator appeal to intervene in Exxon case
2015-10-21 20:31:41| Energy - Topix.net
Environmental groups and a New Jersey senator have appealed a judge's ruling that they can't intervene in the state's $225 million settlement with Exxon Mobil over contaminated gas stations and other sites. The New Jersey Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Environment New Jersey, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and state Sen. Raymond Lesniak filed their appeals last week.
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Environmentalists, Senator Appeal to Intervene in Exxon Case
2015-10-21 20:02:27| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Environmental groups and a senator have appealed a judge's ruling that they can't intervene in the state's $225 million settlement with Exxon Mobil over contaminated gas stations and other sites. The New Jersey Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Environment New Jersey, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and state Sen. Raymond Lesniak filed their appeals last week.
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