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Investors who bought stocks during the COVID-19 market crash in 2020 have generally experienced some big gains in the last two years. But there is no question some big-name stocks performed better than others since the pandemic bottom.

Reuters What Recession? AmEx Shares Ambitious Hiring Plans As Peers Let Go Staff

A new report finds that Big Oil spent $750 million last year on climate-friendly marketing

Fury as ‘explosive’ documents reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists

Documents suggest Shell and BP staff privately downplayed public commitments on climate crisis

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez that grounded on Alaska’s Bligh Reef in 1989, causing one of the nation’s worst oil spills, has died

The UN’s call for windfall taxes must be taken up by governments to help break the power of greedy cartels

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Reuters Taiwan’s China Airlines Orders 16 Boeing 787s

Ever since Exxon Mobil found vast deposits of oil off Guyana's coastline in 2015, government leaders have pledged that black gold would transform the fortunes of one of South America's poorest countries.