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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Matt Mathers

ExxonMobil should ‘own up and pay up’ for heating planet, government’s climate adviser says

AP

Oil and gas giant ExxonMobil should “own up and pay up” for the role it has played in accelerating climate change, a Conservative peer and government climate advisor has said.

Lord Deben, the former Tory environment secretary and cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, accused the US multinational of “denying the facts” and singled it out for refusing to take “any responsibility” for heating up the planet.

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