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‘Victory’: Supreme Court Rejects Exxon’s Appeal, Time to Fork Over Climate Docs

‘Victory’: Supreme Court Rejects Exxon’s Appeal, Time to Fork Over Climate Docs

Massachusetts’ Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey declared “victory” on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected ExxonMobil’s attempt to derail her office’s probe into whether the fossil fuel giant misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change. The justices declined to hear Exxon’s appeal of an April ruling by Massachusetts’ highest court, […]

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    Why Is ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups?

    Why Is ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups?

    By Elliott Negin A decade after pledging to end its support for climate science deniers, ExxonMobil gave $1.5 million last year to 11 think tanks and lobby groups that reject established climate science and openly oppose the oil and gas giant’s professed climate policy preferences, according to the company’s annual charitable giving report released this […]

    South Portland, Maine Wins Critical Fight vs. Big Oil

    South Portland, Maine Wins Critical Fight vs. Big Oil

    The city of South Portland, Maine has won an important victory in a three-year legal battle to stop a pipeline company from offloading tar sands crude oil on its waterfront, after a judge ruled Friday that the city’s ordinance against the activity was constitutional, The Portland Press Herald reported. Portland Pipe Line Corp. had wanted […]

    ExxonMobil’s Support for a Carbon Tax Is a Sham

    ExxonMobil’s Support for a Carbon Tax Is a Sham

    By Elliott Negin ExxonMobil executives just had another opportunity to convince skeptics that their support for a carbon tax is genuine. They blew it. On July 23, Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo introduced a bill that would place a $24 per ton tax on carbon emissions and dedicate 70 percent of the revenue to rebuilding U.S. […]

    Permian Basin Pipeline Will Carry Out 1 M Barrels of Crude Oil Per Day

    Permian Basin Pipeline Will Carry Out 1 M Barrels of Crude Oil Per Day

    ExxonMobil and Plains All American Pipeline announced Tuesday a joint pursuit to construct a multi-billion dollar pipeline that will transport more than 1 million barrels of crude oil and condensate per day from the oil-rich Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast, the Houston Chronicle reported. The proposed pipeline will stretch hundreds of miles from […]

    Texas Residents Urge Rejection of World’s Largest Plastics Plant: ‘Millions of Gallons of Toxic Wastewater a Day’ Would Be Dumped Into Corpus Christi Bay

    Texas Residents Urge Rejection of World’s Largest Plastics Plant: ‘Millions of Gallons of Toxic Wastewater a Day’ Would Be Dumped Into Corpus Christi Bay

    The Center for Biological Diversity and more than 1,100 Texas residents are demanding that Texas regulators reconsider issuing a wastewater permit to a project that would be the world’s largest plastics plant. The facility, funded by ExxonMobil and the Saudi Arabian government, would discharge more than 13 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater. It […]