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Big Oil, Not Big Tobacco, Wrote the Public Skepticism Playbook

By EcoWatch / July 21, 2016

By Nadia Prupis The playbook on sowing public skepticism about health and climate issues originated not with Big Tobacco—as long believed—but with Big Oil, a new investigation reveals. Documents published Wednesday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) show that the tobacco and fossil fuel industries used the same public relations firms, the same […]

Republicans Escalate War on Attorneys General Over Exxon Climate Change Probe

By EcoWatch / July 14, 2016

ExxonMobil Is Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups

By EcoWatch / July 13, 2016

19 Senators Expose ‘Web of Denial’ Blocking Action on Climate Change

By EcoWatch / July 12, 2016

How Far Will Elected Officials Go to Protect One of World’s Biggest Carbon Polluters?

By EcoWatch / July 5, 2016

Exxon Starts ‘Most Controversial Oil Rig in the World’

By EcoWatch / August 11, 2014

For the oil industry, business comes first. After years of preparation, on Saturday ExxonMobil began drilling a $700 million well in the Kara Sea in Russia’s Arctic. It is Russia’s most northerly well. In doing so, the oil giant has ignored growing concerns over Russia’s role in the Ukrainian conflict, and the sanctions imposed on […]