Category: ExxonKnew
Big Oil Stalls Questioning of ExxonMobil’s Tillerson in Climate Lawsuit
A maverick climate lawsuit few legal authorities thought would survive more than a few months came within two days of questioning the world’s most powerful oil executive under oath. But that prize remains tantalizingly out …
Why won’t Exxon publish its 2015 denial funding?
For some reason, ExxonMobil has delayed publishing its corporate giving report this year, well beyond the normal timing. Is the report undergoing new internal scrutiny due to the investigations launched by several states? Normally, by …
Top Ten Documents Every Reporter Covering ExxonMobil Should Know
If you are a reporter covering ExxonMobil and the unfolding #ExxonKnew investigations underway in several states, the story can get very complex. Exxon is claiming it did nothing wrong. Exxon’s paid accomplices are martyring themselves …
Competitive Enterprise Institute NYT Ad Signatories Got $10 Million from Exxon
This week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute ran a full page ad in the New York Times complaining that the undersigned groups were being attacked in the course of several state investigations into Exxon’s campaign of …
Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil Ties Climate Policy to Local Oil Hazard
A Massachusetts conservation group says it will sue ExxonMobil for failing to protect the Boston harbor area from an old, leaky oil terminal that spews toxic material into nearby rivers, charging that the company’s dual …
DCI Group Subpoenaed on Exxon Climate Denial Fraud Case
Now this is getting interesting… PRWatch just revealed that DCI Group was subpoenaed by the US Virgin Islands as part of the ExxonMobil fraud investigation. This Climate Investigations post contains some things we know about …
Exxon Mimics Big Tobacco’s First Amendment Plea
ExxonMobil’s claim last week in a Texas court that the First Amendment bars an attorney general’s investigation into its history of climate denial is probably a loser. Big Tobacco tried to use the First Amendment …
Strong Optics at Attorney General’s Climate Conclave but Weak on Details, Litigators
The announcement Tuesday that two more attorneys general are investigating whether ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies misled the public about the reality of global warming raised more questions than it answered – particularly as …
It’s not just what #ExxonKnew, it’s what #ExxonDid next
In the wake of Inside Climate News and the Columbia University/LA Times investigations into ExxonMobil’s history on climate science, the company has been terribly busy telling the world that it stands by its scientific work. In …
Former Dept. of Justice Official Says Exxon News Worsens Liability Picture
The former Department of Justice lawyer who led the watershed lawsuit against tobacco companies, says that the news out today about oil giant ExxonMobil knowing as early as 1981 about the threat posed by climate …