Exxon reports record profits The White House responds with renewed calls to boost production Salon · Feb 2, 2023
Exxon announced record earnings. It's bound to renew scrutiny of Big Oil Exxon earned nearly $56 billion in profit last year, the biggest annual profit any Western oil company has ever seen. Chevron set its own record with $35 billion in profit. WEKU · Jan 31, 2023
Unprecedented profit for Exxon as travel, and war, heated up Exxon Mobil posted record annual profits in 2022 as consumers globally struggled with high prices for gasoline, home heating and consumer goods The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2023
Esso owners raked in record £44bn last year as drivers battled with soaring fuel prices US heavyweight Exxon Mobil’s massive haul was not only more than it has ever made before but a historic high for a Western oil company Daily Mirror · Jan 31, 2023
Difficulty measuring methane slows plan to slash emissions Satellites, drones and airplanes equipped with infrared cameras will likely be the backbone of a new federal policy to fine the nation’s largest methane polluters The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2023
Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – what if we had listened to them and acted then? Writers of speculative- and science-fiction often identify a key point in time and explore how a seemingly insignificant event might change the path of humanity. The Conversation · Jan 27, 2023
Guyana: Satellites will spot oil spills, not on-ship experts The former leader of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency is criticizing the government's plan to use satellites to monitor oil spills in the South American nation’s waters The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023
Exxon’s predictions about the climate crisis may have increased its legal peril Several US states say news that Exxon scientists predicted global heating accurately strengthens their lawsuits against company The Guardian - US · Jan 20, 2023
Public funding for political campaigns will keep government working in public’s interest Exxon Mobil spent millions on climate change denial and political contributions — mostly to Republicans — to block action against climate change. Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 19, 2023
Exxon and the 1970s climate predictions that were ignored Letters: Dr Kimon Roussopoulos and Lynn Malpas on unheeded warnings about global heating The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023
UN leader attacks fossil fuel companies in Davos for sowing doubt on climate change "Some in big oil peddled the big lie," he said. Axios · Jan 18, 2023
ExxonMobil ignored accurate global warming studies by its scientists for decades, research finds ExxonMobil, one of the world's largest fossil fuel companies, predicted global warming, but chose to downplay climate change for decades. The New Daily · Jan 13, 2023
Afternoon Update: were factional feuds behind Perrottet’s revelation?; Lisa Marie Presley dies; and Covid cases drop NSW premier refuses to engage with suggestions Liberal party feuds led to his Nazi costume revelation, but that hasn’t stopped speculation The Guardian - AU · Jan 13, 2023
ExxonMobil predicted climate change while downplaying risk US-based company’s own scientists accurately predicted global warming as far back as the 1970s, study says. Al Jazeera · Jan 13, 2023
Tribune News Service · Jan 13, 2023 News briefs New ‘kraken’ mutation of the COVID-19 virus is most contagious subvariant yet
The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2023 AP photographer Jack Smith, who shot Mount St. Helens, dies Jack Smith, an Associated Press photographer who captured unforgettable shots of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Exxon-Valdez oil spill and the Olympics during his 35-year career with the news organization, has died
Los Angeles Times · Jan 12, 2023 ExxonMobil publicly denied global warming for years but quietly predicted it In perhaps one of the most cynically ironic twists in the field of climate science, new research suggests ExxonMobil may have had keener insight into the impending dangers of global warming than even NASA scientists but still waged a decades-long campaign to discredit research into climate change and its connection…
The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2023 Study: Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s A new study says Exxon Mobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming
WEKU · Jan 12, 2023 Exxon climate predictions were accurate decades ago. Still it sowed doubt Exxon's climate research decades back painted an accurate picture of global warming, according to a new scientific paper. Still, the oil company continued climate-denying policy efforts.
Inverse · Jan 12, 2023 This oil giant accurately predicted global warming — and still lied about it New research finds ExxonMobil's internal research accurately projected global warming, even as their public messaging downplayed climate change.
Tribune News Service · Jan 9, 2023 Commentary: Lying about climate change is its own industry Over the holidays too many years ago, when I was little more than a toddler, I was caught in a baldfaced lie after having exhausted the freshly baked treasures of a kitchen cookie jar. I denied “the truth and the whole truth” by claiming maybe to have only eaten one…
The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2022 ExxonMobil takes EU to court in bid to block ‘counter-productive’ windfall tax Oil and gas giant has accused the EU of overreaching its authority with move to tax profits amid energy crisis
The Guardian - US · Dec 9, 2022 Oil firms have internally dismissed swift climate action, House panel says Documents show the fossil fuel industry ‘has no real plans to clean up its act’ and took steps to continue business as usual
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WEKU · Dec 6, 2022 A former Florida congressman is arrested on charges of lobbying for Venezuela A newly unsealed grand jury indictment alleges that former Rep. David Rivera, a well-connected Florida Republican, illegally acted on Venezuela's behalf.