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The New York Times reports that corporations are beginning to see the writing on the wall:
Companies See Climate Hitting Their Bottom Lines in the Next 5 Years
Brad Palmer reports:
WASHINGTON — Many of the world’s biggest companies, from...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jun 05, 2019 at 10:46 AM PDT
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‘First diary. Please be gentle.
There are some paradoxes in the Exxon-Russia-U.S. Government joint venture in the Russian Arctic. Logic supports “the country that runs out of oil last wins.”
by FoggyDew
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on Mon Dec 12, 2016 at 04:20 AM PST
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Trump has punished the American people by running the most vile and disgusting political campaign in American history. Let’s return him the favor and hit him where it counts - in the pocket book.
by DannyG123
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on Thu Oct 20, 2016 at 01:35 PM PDT
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating Exxon Mobil's deception on climate change.
Justin Gillis and Clifford Krauss from The New York ...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Nov 05, 2015 at 01:00 PM PST
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From philly.com :
A judge on Tuesday approved New Jersey's controversial $225 million settlement with ExxonMobil Corp., following a decade of litigation over the oil giant's pollution of more than ...
by pierre9045
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on Tue Aug 25, 2015 at 12:17 PM PDT
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My daughters and I just returned from an 11 day camping trip which included a four day stay on the shore of McDonald Lake in Glacier National Park. We saw many wonders of nature, beautiful rivers ...
by Doctor Jazz
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on Sat Aug 08, 2015 at 03:40 PM PDT
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Icing on the cake of a historic day in activism!
Symbolism? Certainly. Change? Definitely!
Breaking news over at the NY Times , in the lead story position of the newspaper’s website…
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by bobswern
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on Sun Sep 21, 2014 at 07:23 PM PDT
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Exxon-Mobil is Standard Oil. Exxon was Esso, Standard Oil of New Jersey. Mobil was Standard Oil of New York.
Full Disclosure: Both of my parents worked at Mobil after their divorce. Mother gets a ...
by aoeu
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on Sun Sep 21, 2014 at 10:26 AM PDT
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Originally posted at The Wrench:
FROM RURAL PENNSYLVANIA TO VLADIMIR PUTIN WITH LOVE: POISONED KISSES FROM THE MARQUARDT, UNIT 1H, EXCO.
http://thewrenchphilosleft.blogspot.com/2014/03/from-rural-...
by philosleft
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on Tue Mar 11, 2014 at 05:31 PM PDT
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From AP :
CONCORD, N.H. — A jury found Exxon Mobil liable Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit over groundwater contamination by the gasoline additive MTBE, and ordered the oil giant to pay $236 ...
by ericlewis0
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on Tue Apr 09, 2013 at 11:12 AM PDT
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A DK "Abolish ALEC" Special Report , reposted from Monday...
Last month I began a two part series that began with " ALEC, the Koch Led CABAL & "The Amicus Project" - Fed Court Interference ." The ...
by Bob Sloan
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on Fri Aug 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM PDT
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Last month I began a two part series that began with " ALEC, the Koch Led CABAL & "The Amicus Project" - Fed Court Interference ." The first segment dealt with identifying and exposing ALEC's Koch ...
by Bob Sloan
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on Mon Aug 20, 2012 at 02:56 PM PDT
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Denial is a funny thing -- it is typically an assertion of fact , without convincing "factual" proof to back it up.
Denial is often more about creating confusion about "Facts" -- than actually ...
by jamess
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on Sat Jul 21, 2012 at 09:21 AM PDT
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Topics: Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims administrator says $5 billion has been paid out, BP's $20 billion oil spill claims fund: $5 billion paid, Pleasure Island business owners endure long wait for ...
by peraspera
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on Wed Aug 24, 2011 at 01:08 PM PDT
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Do you wonder (like I do) what the tax accountants and executives are doing over at GE this weekend? Frantically rushing to fill out their IRS returns like the rest of us?
Hardly. They're taking ...
by Michael Moore
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on Fri Apr 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM PDT
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The multi-million dollar pipeline from Exxon-Mobil to the climate denial noise machine has continued unabated, 3 years after the company promised not to fund climate deniers any longer.
Big Business,
by Keith Pickering
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on Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 12:19 AM PDT
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
By David Glenn Cox
Poor Joe Barton, the Republicans held their spin meeting and came up with their talking points. Then Tony Hayward pretends that he's ...
by Daveparts
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on Fri Jun 18, 2010 at 09:10 AM PDT
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Suddenly the Republican mantra of "drill, baby, drill," all makes sense ... after all, the oil companies have plans to deal with situations like BP's Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophe.
And during ...
by Barbara Morrill
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on Tue Jun 15, 2010 at 01:10 PM PDT
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I was as taken aback as everyone else by President Obama's announcement that he was preemptively caving on a major Republican demand in climate negotiations and expanding offshore drilling.
Until ...
by JR
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on Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 09:52 PM PDT
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Almost all of us have to purchase at least a few gallons a gas occasionally for our car or lawnmower. There's much controversy out there about what petroleum company is least harmful to ...
by people power granny
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on Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 06:03 PM PDT
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