On 9/17/23 11:32 AM, ScottW wrote:
and so wasteful of resources.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-sues-exxon-shell-and-bp-over-shameful-deception-sickens-you-to-your-core/ar-AA1gOQbj
It was premature of Newsom to act in advance of this WSJ reporting:
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af
Hed: Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change
Paywall but quoted here:
https://www.sej.org/headlines/inside-exxon-s-strategy-downplay-climate-change
"ExxonMobil issued its first public statement that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change in 2006, following years of denial. In
public forums, the company argued that the risk of serious impact on the environment justified global action.
Yet behind closed doors, Exxon took a very different tack: Its
executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might
hurt its oil-and-gas business, according to internal Exxon documents
reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with former executives.
Exxon’s public acceptance in 2006 of the risks posed by climate change
was an early act of Rex Tillerson, an Exxon lifer who became CEO that
year. Some viewed him as a moderating force who brought Exxon in line
with the scientific consensus.
The documents reviewed by the Journal, which haven’t been previously reported, cast Tillerson’s decadelong tenure in a different light. They
show that Tillerson, as well as some of Exxon’s board directors and
other top executives, sought to cast doubt on the severity of climate change’s impacts. Exxon scientists supported research that questioned
the findings of mainstream climate science, even after the company said
it would stop funding think tanks and others that promoted
climate-change denial.
Exxon is now a defendant in dozens of lawsuits around the U.S. that
accuse it and other oil companies of deception over climate change and
that aim to collect billions of dollars in damages. Prosecutors and
attorneys involved in some of the cases are seeking some of the
documents reviewed by the Journal, which were part of a previous
investigation by New York’s attorney general but never made public."
Get in line, Gavin!
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