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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Royal Society</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> of the United Kingdom</span></b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">, for centuries a renowned arbiter of science,<b> harshly criticized Exxon in 2006 for publishing "very misleading" statements about the IPCC's Third Assessment Report</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The IPCC found that most of the observed warming of the planet in the late 20</span></span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" line-height="line-height" position="position" relative="relative" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" top="top" em="em" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">th</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> century was probably caused by humans</span>.[CEI ebell ctr-slap?]</span></font></div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Society's communications manager Bob <b>Ward reminded Exxon pointedly that one of its own scientists had contributed to the IPCC chapter in question</b>.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2006/royal-society-exxonmobil/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">The Royal Society said</a> it had no problem with Exxon funding scientific research, but "we do have concerns about<b> ExxonMobil's funding of lobby groups that seek to misrepresent the scientific evidence relating to climate change."</b></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Ward said Exxon <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/documents/Royal%20Society%20Letter%20to%20Exxon%20%282006%29.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">was funding at least 39 organizations</a> "featuring information on their websites that misrepresented the science on climate change</font><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, by outright denial of the evidence that greenhouse gases are driving climate change, or by overstating the amount and significance of uncertainty in knowledge."</font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">----</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2006/royal-society-exxonmobil/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2006/royal-society-exxonmobil/</a></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4 September 2006</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Society welcomes open debate, underpinned by sound science, on the subject of climate change. In September 2006, the Royal Society wrote to ExxonMobil to express concern that some of its corporate publications were presenting a misleading view of the scientific evidence about climate change and were over-emphasising uncertainties about what we do and don't know. This letter followed a meeting which had taken place at the request of ExxonMobil where the Society raised concerns about Exxon's position on climate change and the company's funding of lobby groups that misrepresented the science. At the meeting ExxonMobil indicated that it intended to stop funding these organisations. The letter asked for clarification as to when the company would carry out this pledge. Although we have exchanged further letters with ExxonMobil, it has still not addressed this issue.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Downloads</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Letter from the Royal Society to ExxonMobil no cut paste to nick thomas esso uk reply to BS?</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In, particular I was very surprised to read the following passage...</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/-/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2006/8257.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://royalsociety.org/-/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2006/8257.pdf</a></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PDF, 597.0KB</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Letter from ExxonMobil to the Royal Society </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ken cohen to Rees</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> no cut paste</span></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">complex and varying opinions exist... </font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/-/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2006/8257-Reply.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://royalsociety.org/-/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2006/8257-Reply.pdf</a></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PDF, 1.4MB</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the UK's national academy of science, the Royal Society has a responsibility to speak out when scientific evidence is misrepresented. We will continue to do this on climate change and on other issues.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is essential that the scientific evidence on climate change is accurately represented so that policymakers, industry, the public and other stakeholders can make informed decisions about what actions to take.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">
</p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In particular, it is important to note that:</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Royal Society's objective is to promote debate on climate change and to ensure that it is informed by sound science; it is not our intention to stifle debate.  </font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Society has never objected to the funding of scientific research by ExxonMobil. We actively promote scientific research that seeks to improve our understanding of climate change. </font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" /></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We do have concerns about ExxonMobil's funding of lobby groups that seek to misrepresent the scientific evidence relating to climate change.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NARRATOR:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plan emerged as the 2008 presidential campaign was ramping up. Republican candidate John McCain came out in support of the cap and trade approach.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SEN. JOHN McCAIN, R-Arizona:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NARRATOR:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So did his opponent, Democrat Barack Obama.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SEN. BARACK OBAMA, D-Illinois:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HEATHER ZICHAL, Environmental policy director, Obama campaign:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Having worked on many presidential races and around presidential politics, that was the first year where we really saw climate change as something that American voters really wanted to hear from candidates on. It was interesting, because we were not necessarily having a debate about whether or not climate change was real. It was really, "How collectively can we make a meaningful contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the economy?"</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NARRATOR:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly before the presidential election, Exxon Mobil contacted corporate responsibility specialist Bennett Freeman.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>BENNETT FREEMAN, SVP, Calvert Investments</b>, 2006-15:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">I had an informal conversation in the back of a limousine with<b> Ken Cohen at Exxon </b>Mobil,</span> who was essentially their chief policymaker and public affairs officer. <b>I think the observation that got Ken Cohen's attention was that we had this unprecedented situation where both the Republican and the Democratic nominee for president both committed to the climate agenda.</b> And we had a pretty frank conversation about the implications for the company, particularly on climate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I thought that Exxon was shamefully out of the action because it had become so apparent that climate science was real. So my advice to Ken was for the company to finally take a public position on climate policy. To make an unequivocal statement accepting the reality of climate science. To make a unequivocal commitment to not fund any more climate denial research, which Exxon was infamous for supporting, for funding directly. And to take a positive, proactive position supporting action at the U.S. federal level.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NARRATOR:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two weeks before President Obama was inaugurated, Exxon Mobil CEO Tillerson would give a speech that went farther than the company had ever gone on the urgency of the climate change issue.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>BENNETT FREEMAN:</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amazingly, that speech happened.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 2009</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">REX TILLERSON:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Globally, the outlook for energy expects energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to rise by an average of 1% per year through the year 2030. These two fundamental realities, meeting enormous demand growth and managing the risk of greenhouse gas emissions, are the twin challenges of our time.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BENNETT FREEMAN:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was, I think, the first time that at least at the CEO level, they started, just started to take a policy position that was potentially constructive. It's important to acknowledge that this was an initial step. But it's equally important, even more important, in my opinion, to emphasize that it was a step that was little and late.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RUSSELL GOLD, FRONTLINE consultant:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I covered Exxon Mobil at <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wall Street Journal</span> at that time, and Rex Tillerson was a breath of fresh air. He starts talking about the importance of pursuing a lower carbon path. But at the end of the day, I can't really point to anything substantive that changed.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NARRATOR:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rex Tillerson did not respond to interview requests.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite his speech, Exxon Mobil did not endorse cap and trade. The bill, sponsored by Democrats Henry <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Waxman and Edward Markey,</span> narrowly passed the House.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; font-size: medium; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MALE SPEAKER:</font></span></p></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<span class="part-description" style="font-weight: normal;">How a small group of conservative think tanks and obstructionist scientists, supported by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, have successfully delayed action on climate change for years</span>.</font></font></font></font></p><p id="chap-VII" class="chapter" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chapter VII. The political global warming debate.</font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Taking action against global warming would be an open and shut case, one would think, but nothing could be farther from the truth politically. Despite the fact that SCIENTIFICALLY the case is open and shut, we are now engaged in a bitter and divisive POLITICAL debate on curtailing global warming. To see why, we must look at who has much to lose if we radically change the way we produce energy in this country and the world. (Not if we radically change our way of life -- I am certainly not advocating that -- but if we radically change the way we produce energy.) As radical changes typically involve action by the Federal Government as well as private industry, we must also look at who is ideologically opposed to government regulation and intervention in the market place.</font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In his Technology Review article, Bill Gates says that to raise an extra 11 billion in R&D funds for energy research, "you'd only have to tax energy 1 percent."<span class="ref-number" style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 12.8px; padding-left: 0.14em; padding-right: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: 0.65em;"><a href="https://yale1962.org/speakout/The-Looming-Climate-Crisis.html#ref-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[41]</a></span> If we multiply 11 billion by 100 (because 1% is 1/100) we find that the total market for energy in the United States comes to 1.1 TRILLION dollars. That's not chump change even for multi-billion dollar corporations.<span class="ref-number" style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 12.8px; padding-left: 0.14em; padding-right: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: 0.65em;"><a href="https://yale1962.org/speakout/The-Looming-Climate-Crisis.html#ref-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[42]</a></span> 80% of our energy in the U.S. comes from coal, oil, and natural gas, and while this figure represents actual energy produced rather than dollars expended, it indicates that a drastic change in the way we produce our energy stands to cost the coal, oil, and natural gas companies around 80% of that 1.1 TRILLION dollars. And that's just in the U.S. alone. No wonder the fossil fuel industry is unenthusiastic about meeting the challenge of climate change.</font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>[SMOKING GUN]</b></font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservative commentators like to point to left wing paranoid conspiracy theories when people talk about concerted efforts by the fossil fuel industry to spread disinformation about the threat of climate change, but unfortunately there is DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE of just such efforts dating from the first days of the political global warming debate. In <b>1998,</b> as the New York Times reported:</font></font></font></font></p><blockquote times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Industry opponents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science."</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Among their ideas is a campaign to recruit a cadre of scientists who share the industry's views of climate science and to train them in public relations so they can help convince journalists, politicians and the public that the risk of global warming is too uncertain to justify controls on greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide that trap the sun's heat near Earth."</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"An informal group of people working for big oil companies, trade associations and conservative policy research organizations that oppose the treaty have been meeting recently at the Washington office of the American Petroleum Institute to put the plan together."<span class="ref-number" style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 12.8px; padding-left: 0.14em; padding-right: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: 0.65em;"><a href="https://yale1962.org/speakout/The-Looming-Climate-Crisis.html#ref-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[43]</a></span></font></font></font></font></p></blockquote><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Times report goes on to list Exxon (now ExxonMobil), Chevron, the Southern Company, as well as The George C. Marshall Institute and The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (now The Advancement of Sound Science Center or TASSC) as participants, in addition, of course, to the American Petroleum Institute where the participants met</b>. The group planned to spend $5 million over two years to, in the words of the Petroleum Institute memo on which the report was based, "maximize the impact of scientific views consistent with ours on Congress, the media and other key audiences." The memo also called for $600,000 to be to be spent on 20 or so "respected climate scientists," recruited "to inject credible science and scientific accountability into the global climate debate, thereby raising questions about and undercutting the 'prevailing scientific wisdom'." This campaign was to be directed at science writers, editors, columnists and television network correspondents.<span class="ref-number" style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 12.8px; padding-left: 0.14em; padding-right: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: 0.65em;"><a href="https://yale1962.org/speakout/The-Looming-Climate-Crisis.html#ref-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[44]</a></span></font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Public exposure of the plan seems to have caused it to be abandoned, but the strategy outlined in the</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Petroleum Institute memo has continued to be used by the coal and oil companies and their conservative think tank allies to great effect.</font></font></font></font></p><p id="chap-VIII" class="chapter" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chapter VIII. The Royal Society's "Dear Nick" letter.</font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Royal Society, sometimes known as the Royal Society of London, is the oldest and most prestigious scientific body in the world. On<b> September 4, 2006, in its famous "Dear Nick" letter,</b> it took the unprecedented step of taking ExxonMobil to task for misrepresenting climate science, and for funding groups which mislead the public about climate science and global warming.<span class="ref-number" style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 12.8px; padding-left: 0.14em; padding-right: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: 0.65em;"><a href="https://yale1962.org/speakout/The-Looming-Climate-Crisis.html#ref-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[45]</a></span> The letter was addressed to Nick Thomas, Director, Corporate Affairs, Esso UK Limited, and was signed by Bob Ward, Senior Manager, Policy Communication for the Royal Society. The letter is quite interesting for what it reveals about ExxonMobil's tactics at the time,</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and is worth quoting almost in full:</font></font></font></font></p><blockquote times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Dear Nick"</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"Thank-you for your recent letter and accompanying copies of the 2005 ExxonMobil 'Corporate Citizenship Report</b>' and the 'UK and Ireland Corporate Citizenship' brochure. I have read both with interest, but I am writing to express my disappointment at the inaccurate and misleading view of the science of climate change that these documents present."</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"In particular, I was very surprised to read the following passage from the section on Environmental performance under the sub-heading of 'Uncertainty and risk' (p.23 in the 'Corporate Citizenship Report':"</font></font></font></font></p><p class="quote" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-left: 10px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">'While assessments such as those of the IPCC have expressed growing confidence that recent warming can be attributed to increases in greenhouse gases, these conclusions rely on expert judgement rather than objective, reproducible statistical methods. Taken together, gaps in the scientific basis for theoretical climate models and the interplay of significant natural variability make it very difficult to determine objectively the extent to which recent climate changes might be the result of human actions.'</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"As I mentioned in July, these statements are very misleading. The 'expert judgement' of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was actually based on objective and quantitative analyses and methods, including advanced statistical appraisals, which carefully accounted for the interplay of natural variability, and which have been independently reproduced.</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Furthermore, these statements in your documents are not consistent with the scientific literature that has been published on this issue. ..."</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"At our meeting in July, I also told you of my concerns about the support ExxonMobil has been giving to organizations that have been misinforming the public about the science of climate change. ...</b>"</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"I have carried out an ad hoc survey on the websites of organizations that are listed in the ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report for 'public information and policy research', which is published on your website. Of those organizations whose websites feature information about climate change, I found that 25 offered views that are consistent with the scientific literature. However, some 39 organizations were featuring information on their websites that misrepresented the science of climate change, by outright denial of the evidence that greenhouse gases are driving climate change, or by overstating the amount and significance of uncertainty in knowledge, or by conveying a misleading impression of the potential impacts of anthropogenic climate change. My analysis indicates that ExxonMobil last year provided more than 2.9 million to organizations in the United States which misinformed the public about climate change through their websites. </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">..."</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Yours sincerely"</font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Bob Ward"
"Senior Manager, Policy Communication"</font></font></font></font></p></blockquote><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This letter reveals that as late as 2006, ExxonMobil was still following the strategy laid out in the American Petroleum Institute memo of "raising questions about and undercutting the 'prevailing scientific wisdom'" in regard to global warming and climate change. It reveals that ExxonMobil was working through a variety of organizations "which misinformed the public about climate change," and it reveals that ExxonMobil was supporting these organizations by helping fund them to the tune of<b> $2.9 million for the single year 2005.</b></font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of course, companies have the right to get their message out, but note that ExxonMobil was playing both ends against the middle: it also featured links to the websites of 25 organizations that "offered views that are consistent with the scientific literature." In this way, ExxonMobil could give the appearance of impartiality in a scientific debate which was still undecided. Of course the debate had long been OVERWHELMINGLY DECIDED in favor of anthropogenic global warming with serious future consequences, but ExxonMobil's support strategy was cleverly designed to undermine that proposition.</font></font></font></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ExxonMobil and other corporations fighting environmental progress have got a very good return for their dollars. ExxonMobil spent a mere $2.9 million on various organizations fighting action on climate change in 2005 according to the Royal Society, and the entire budget of the conservative Heartland Institute for 2010 was a mere $4.4 million according to a recent article in the conservative but extremely well written Weekly Standard. But this same article in The Weekly Standard points out that the Natural Resources Defense Council took in $99 million in 2010.<span class="ref-number" style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 12.8px; padding-left: 0.14em; padding-right: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: 0.65em;"><a href="https://yale1962.org/speakout/The-Looming-Climate-Crisis.html#ref-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[46]</a></span> The highly successful corporate campaign to delay action to stop climate change has been one of the most successful examples of asymmetric warfare on record. Unfortunately, it may also have jeopardized the future of our Republic and our entire civilization.</font></font></font></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">}}</font></font></font></font></font></div></div></span></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>{{energy poverty BS: rentatom:</div><div>“[Alford] was very emphatic as to who was paying the price on these,” the Oklahoma Republican continued, “and I think sometimes that the previous administration forgot that there are already people out there who are paying all they can pay just to try to eat and keep their house warm.”</div><div>ExxonMobil’s Echo Chamber</div><div>Inhofe’s source for his assertion? A discredited, ExxonMobil-funded study by an Exxon-funded advocacy group that was based on discredited studies by other ExxonMobil-funded organizations.</div><div>Inhofe rested his argument on previous congressional testimony by<b> Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)</b>, a shoestring, mom-and-pop operation that is unapologetic about taking fossil fuel industry money. “Of course we do and it is only natural,” Alford wrote on NBCC’s website. “The legacy of Blacks in this nation has been tied to the miraculous history of fossil fuel…. [F]ossil fuels have been our economic friend.”</div><div>One of NBCC’s closest economic friends is ExxonMobil, which has donated more than $1.14 million to the group since 2001.</div><div>What did the company get for that money?</div><div>In 2015, NBCC commissioned a report that claimed the Clean Power Plan would “inflict severe and disproportionate economic burdens on poor families, especially minorities.”</div><div>...In 2015, NBCC commissioned a report that claimed the Clean Power Plan would “inflict severe and disproportionate economic burdens on poor families, especially minorities.”</div><div>In fact, unchecked climate change would more than likely hurt those communities most, and investments in energy efficiency under the plan would ultimately lower electricity bills across the country.</div><div>How did NBCC arrive at its upside-down assessment? The Union of Concerned Scientists took a close look at the report and found it was based on several flawed fossil fuel industry-friendly studies. Two of those bogus studies were produced by ExxonMobil grantees: the Heritage Foundation, which received $340,000 from ExxonMobil between 2007 and 2013, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which received $3 million between 2014 and 2016.</div><div>The Chamber study, which came out just days before the EPA released a draft of the Clean Power Plan, was debunked not only by the EPA, but also by PolitiFact.com and The Washington Post. Among its many faults, the Chamber study—which was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute—wildly inflated the cost of the plan and failed to consider the benefits of cutting carbon emissions.}}</div><div>((2016</div><div>Think tanks receiving grants from the ExxonMobil Foundation include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which was the leading think tank pushing climate denial, coordinating the "Cooler Heads Coalition." At one point, ExxonMobil funded nearly all the groups listed in the coalition.</div><div><b>In 2005, the CEI ran a TV ad proclaiming "C02 is Life." This was the last straw for the UK's Royal Society, which complained to ExxonMobil and led Cohen to declare, in 2007, that the company was no longer funding these organisations. </b>The world's media heralded the move. But ExxonMobil quietly continued funding the think tanks, extensively. In 2009, it dropped a few more.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">While Ken Cohen might try to state that the organizations he funded could do what they wanted, it's important to note that in some years, the company specifically spelt out its funding as being for their work on climate change.</span></div><div>Even today, ExxonMobil continues to be a member of -- and to fund -- the American Legislative Exchange Council which, at its annual meeting, has hosted a number of climate change-denying scientists to question the existence of global warming. Research has revealed that that ExxonMobil donated at least $1.6 million to ALEC between 1998 and 2012. In 2014 it gave them more.</div><div>A study published in PNAS on November 23 looked at the effect of grants from ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers on the discourse around climate science. It showed that the climate denial echo chamber organizations they funded produced misinformation that effectively polluted mainstream media coverage of climate science and polarized the climate policy debate.[dropped cfact , tho it is still ~ paris] ))</div><div>
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</div><div>1: MONEY: the easiest way to call out bad corp actor is Follow the Money [going all the way back to Exxon Secrets], promised to stop denial funding to 2 senators Exxon promise, so hide the money;  </div><div>...In 2006, another cousin, Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and Senator Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, wrote a letter to the incoming Exxon chief executive Rex Tillerson, urging the company to stop funding climate deniers.... --> 2016 Exxon Mobil Accuses the Rockefellers of a Climate Conspiracy </div><div> [[ GP: 2007? Corporate Citizenship Report, released in time for its shareholder meeting. </div><div> The statement reads: "in 2008 we will distcontinue [sic?] contributions to several public policy interest groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner."  (page 41 under "public policy research contributions."...But is cutting nine groups getting the job done? </div><div>In short, no.  From the 2007 Worldwide Giving Report, posted on Exxon’s website on Friday, we can see that Exxon funded a total of 37 global warming denial groups, to the tune of nearly $2 million,  which is pretty similar to 2006. Even cutting nine of them means the company is still funding 28 groups engaged in climate denial.... Well, no.  We note that Walt Buchholtz, Exxon’s former funding man, left the company and went to work at Heartland for a year. No doubt he helped set up Heartland’s new sources of funding from other members of the business community.  ]]</div><div>
</div><div>{{energy poverty BS: rentatom:</div><div>“[Alford] was very emphatic as to who was paying the price on these,” the Oklahoma Republican continued, “and I think sometimes that the previous administration forgot that there are already people out there who are paying all they can pay just to try to eat and keep their house warm.”</div><div>ExxonMobil’s Echo Chamber</div><div>Inhofe’s source for his assertion? A discredited, ExxonMobil-funded study by an Exxon-funded advocacy group that was based on discredited studies by other ExxonMobil-funded organizations.</div><div>Inhofe rested his argument on previous congressional testimony by Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), a shoestring, mom-and-pop operation that is unapologetic about taking fossil fuel industry money. “Of course we do and it is only natural,” Alford wrote on NBCC’s website. “The legacy of Blacks in this nation has been tied to the miraculous history of fossil fuel…. [F]ossil fuels have been our economic friend.”</div><div>One of NBCC’s closest economic friends is ExxonMobil, which has donated more than $1.14 million to the group since 2001.</div><div>What did the company get for that money?</div><div>In 2015, NBCC commissioned a report that claimed the Clean Power Plan would “inflict severe and disproportionate economic burdens on poor families, especially minorities.”</div><div>...In 2015, NBCC commissioned a report that claimed the Clean Power Plan would “inflict severe and disproportionate economic burdens on poor families, especially minorities.”</div><div>In fact, unchecked climate change would more than likely hurt those communities most, and investments in energy efficiency under the plan would ultimately lower electricity bills across the country.</div><div>How did NBCC arrive at its upside-down assessment? The Union of Concerned Scientists took a close look at the report and found it was based on several flawed fossil fuel industry-friendly studies. Two of those bogus studies were produced by ExxonMobil grantees: the Heritage Foundation, which received $340,000 from ExxonMobil between 2007 and 2013, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which received $3 million between 2014 and 2016.</div><div>The Chamber study, which came out just days before the EPA released a draft of the Clean Power Plan, was debunked not only by the EPA, but also by PolitiFact.com and The Washington Post. Among its many faults, the Chamber study—which was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute—wildly inflated the cost of the plan and failed to consider the benefits of cutting carbon emissions.}}</div><div>((2016</div><div>Think tanks receiving grants from the ExxonMobil Foundation include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which was the leading think tank pushing climate denial, coordinating the "Cooler Heads Coalition." At one point, ExxonMobil funded nearly all the groups listed in the coalition.</div><div>In 2005, the CEI ran a TV ad proclaiming "C02 is Life." This was the last straw for the UK's Royal Society, which complained to ExxonMobil and led Cohen to declare, in 2007, that the company was no longer funding these organisations. The world's media heralded the move. But ExxonMobil quietly continued funding the think tanks, extensively. In 2009, it dropped a few more.</div><div>While Ken Cohen might try to state that the organizations he funded could do what they wanted, it's important to note that in some years, the company specifically spelt out its funding as being for their work on climate change.</div><div>Even today, ExxonMobil continues to be a member of -- and to fund -- the American Legislative Exchange Council which, at its annual meeting, has hosted a number of climate change-denying scientists to question the existence of global warming. Research has revealed that that ExxonMobil donated at least $1.6 million to ALEC between 1998 and 2012. In 2014 it gave them more.</div><div>A study published in PNAS on November 23 looked at the effect of grants from ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers on the discourse around climate science. It showed that the climate denial echo chamber organizations they funded produced misinformation that effectively polluted mainstream media coverage of climate science and polarized the climate policy debate.[dropped cfact , tho it is still ~ paris] ))</div><div>
</div><div>mostly just fund trade group esp API NAM and they can funnel the money thru pass thru/cut outs (see SAABs]</div><div>
</div><div>C3-4 shuffle?</div><div>
</div><div>DONORS TRUST/DAFs</div><div>
</div><div>2: SAAB?  BIG 4 CLAIMED TO ALIGN WITH PARIS, but basically stepped back and let buffer industry groups take the lead; woman BP comissioned a report and defected from some of the worst but NOT....(plus BP Susan she was fired?) [bob stout VP?]</div><div>
</div><div>API: West Va ACB dad; amicus?</div><div>_ESG ,1st Amend, exceeds power of SEC (also Chevron no climate crisis?]</div><div>West Va divest: The Heritage Foundation, the Heartland Institute and the American Petroleum Institute are among the conservative groups with ties to the fossil fuel industry that have been working with the State Financial Officers Foundation and the treasurers to shape their national strategy.  ~ Blackrock Fink; Heritage CRC Advisors Leo; ALEC Koch; ~ Omarova commie]</div><div>gas prices: “There are a lot of factors at play as to why energy prices are surging,” Mike Sommers, president of the American Petroleum Institute, or API, told CNBC at the time. “But certainly one of the key factors is that the Biden administration has made an effort to reduce production in the United States. One of their first acts, for example, was cutting off the Keystone XL pipeline. One of their second acts was cutting up leasing and permitting on federal lands, and then they cut off access to ANWR,” referring to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska....</div><div>Ukraine invasion: infl map</div><div>
</div><div>The main actors identified in this briefing are the American Petroleum Institute, American Gas Association, National Association of Manufacturers, US Chamber of Commerce, and Consumer Energy Alliance</div><div> Some of the findings are to be expected. API went big, as did Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The usual suspects amplified the industry’s messaging: Breitbart News, Fox News, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn. All told, API placed 651 Facebook ads from the end of January to April 1, reaching more than 19 million people. On February 24, the day of the invasion, API and its network got busy. “There’s a huge peak where we get to 100 fossil fuel misinformation posts that yielded over 5 million likes, comments, and shares,” Arena noted.  [“I think you could call it a disinformation-driven heist of public policy.”</div><div>... These narratives have also been heavily pushed on social media. For example, between February </div><div>4th and March 31st, 2022, the American Petroleum Institute created and ran an ad campaign </div><div>through its astroturf group, Energy Citizens, which consisted of 233 individual ads that were seen </div><div>roughly 19.6 million times, equivalent to around 10% of all US users of Facebook (Q1 2022). All of </div><div>these ads promoted 'American-made energy' or 'energy independence'. </div><div>----</div><div>Darren Woods Exxon CCS BS (said gov't subsidies would be req? in BBB? CA]</div><div>
</div><div>time stop year: </div><div>---</div><div>SHILLENBERGER:  denialism --> delayism</div><div>~ Thacker, whole websites ~ book?</div><div>Hansen WSJ, Blue Grn?</div><div>astroturf Ohio nuke (spkr jail?)</div><div>
</div><div>calabrese hornesis</div><div>
</div><div></div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21122015/exxon-mobil-carbon-tax-rhetoric-or-reality-climate-change-rex-tillerson/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/2112<b>2015</b>/exxon-mobil-carbon-tax-rhetoric-or-reality-climate-change-rex-tillerson/</a></div><div>
</div><div>a<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;">s Congress was gearing up to vote on major U.S.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" style="font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">climate</a><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;">legislation, ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson spoke up in favor of a carbon tax in a January 2009 speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.</span></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“As a businessman it is hard to speak favorably about any new tax,” Tillerson said in a four-paragraph passage on page six of a seven-page speech. “But a carbon tax strikes me as a more direct, a more transparent and a more effective approach” than the complex cap-and-trade bill that Congress was considering.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Exxon now says that speech was the beginning of its consistent stance in favor of a tax on the carbon content of fossil fuels. Leading up to the United Nations climate talks in Paris this month, the company again said that if carbon regulations ever became necessary, a carbon tax would be the best approach, a position in line with that of mainstream economists.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>But Exxon has never put its political muscle behind a carbon tax.</b> It has not stepped up campaign contributions to lawmakers because they favor one. Nor has it lobbied for carbon tax bills in Congress, mounted any advertising campaigns in favor of the idea, or funded organizations that push for such laws at the federal or state level.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Exxon also refused to sign on to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/01/europes-energy-big-six-gas-fight-climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">a letter from other international oil giants</a>, including Royal Dutch Shell and BP, that strongly urged the Paris climate negotiators to push for a global price on carbon. The conference led to a treaty urging the phasing out of net carbon emissions from fossil fuels within the next several decades.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Instead, Exxon has channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars to the American Legislative Exchange Council in recent years and sits on its corporate board. <a href="http://www.alec.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">ALEC</a> <a href="http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/resolution-opposition-carbon-tax/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">adopted a resolution</a> in 2013 opposing “all federal and state efforts to establish a carbon tax on fuels for electricity and transportation.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>In June 2013, four years after his favorable comments on carbon taxes, Tillerson waffled. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>“As to our advocacy around a carbon tax—I would not support putting a carbon tax in place today because I think we still have a lot of gains to be made through technology and other less intrusive policies on the economy which are showing results,</b>” <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2650283-TillersonClevelandtranscriptcarbontaxJune2013.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">he said</a> in a <a href="https://cityclub.org/events/rex-tillerson" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">speech before The City Club of Cleveland</a>. [vid</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">yet in a blog post written on Dec. 2, “<a href="http://www.exxonmobilperspectives.com/2015/12/02/exxonmobil-and-the-carbon-tax/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">ExxonMobil and the carbon tax</a>,” company spokesman </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Ken Cohen </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">wrote that company executives have echoed Tillerson’s 2009 message “in countless private briefings with members of congress on carbon tax policy options.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">In one meeting a few months ago with Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, Exxon officials voiced their support for “a price on carbon,” Lieu said in an interview. When Lieu asked what they would do if he drafted a carbon tax bill, the Exxon representatives said “they would take a look at it,” he told InsideClimate News.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“They didn’t say they wouldn’t support it, and they didn’t say they would,” said Lieu, who has <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16102015/two-us-representatives-seek-justice-department-inquiry-exxon" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Exxon for possible climate deception</a>. “It’s clear that they are not going around championing their position. If they actually believe this internally, then they ought to do so in a much louder way than just quietly sticking it on a website.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>In a 2012 Fox News interview, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said he met with Exxon officials and told them carbon taxes were a bad idea and were going nowhere in Congress.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“It’s not going to come from the Republicans,” Upton <a href="https://youtu.be/5Mg9n-aog3Q" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">said in the interview</a>. “We’re going to do our very best to make sure this is not a mole that pops up again.” Upton also said he didn’t think Exxon’s support of a carbon tax was “a very serious effort on their part.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“I would give them the benefit of the doubt for sincerity,” said Steve Valk, director of communications for <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens’ Climate Lobby</a>, an organization that marshals grassroots support for political climate policy. “From the company’s perspective, a carbon tax is the policy that gives them the most certainty in terms of future business decisions. They know something must be done and they consider the carbon tax the best and fairest option.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>Exxon declined a request by InsideClimate News to discuss its position.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“Based on past reporting by InsideClimate News, we do not believe our comments will be treated fairly and therefore have no response to your questions,” Exxon spokesman Alan Jeffers said in an email.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">A day later, Cohen put up his blog post on the carbon tax. In it, he wrote that Exxon has “repeated our support for this policy option” with members of Congress, socially responsible investors and outside experts.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Greg Dotson, vice president for energy policy at the Center for American Progress, a public policy organization supporting a list of progressive issues, urges a close study of what Exxon is saying.<b> The company isn’t explicitly saying it wants a carbon tax, but is saying it prefers a carbon tax to other options in the face of regulatory intervention.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“Are they saying this is the best of bad options, or are they saying we support a carbon tax?” Dotson said. “The full understanding of what they support has not come to light.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Exxon’s renewed emphasis on its carbon tax posture comes in response to <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">an investigation of its evolving climate policy positions by InsideClimate News</a>, as well as by other news organizations. The investigation found that Exxon occupied a position at the forefront of climate science decades ago, <span dir="ltr" id=":24y" style="box-sizing: inherit;">until it pivoted toward emphasizing scientific uncertainty to forestall strong policy action to slow climate change.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>Since the early 1990s, the idea of taxing energy to limit emissions has been at the center of a lively debate, including President Clinton’s failed attempt to impose a BTU tax.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, so many economists advocate an excise tax that puts a price on the carbon content of those fuels.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Carbon taxes wouldn’t set limits on emissions as other carbon pricing concepts do.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rather, a carbon tax on fossil fuels discourages their use by making them more expensive and encourages the adoption of cleaner alternatives.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since 2009, when Exxon said it began supporting the idea of a carbon tax, more than a dozen pieces of legislation have been proposed to institute various forms of a tax. Each proposal carried different provisions addressing the initial price on carbon, how quickly the tax would increase, and what the revenue would be used for.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Earlier this year, for example, Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of Hawaii introduced legislation that would tax carbon at an initial $42 a ton, rising every year by 2 percent more than the inflation rate. The revenue would be designated for a variety of goals, such as a corporate tax reduction, deficit reduction, payroll tax refunds and Social Security and disability programs.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Other legislation included a 2013 proposal by Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, now running for president as a Democrat, and Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, that would have imposed a $20-a-ton carbon pollution fee at first, with increases of 5.6 percent a year over 10 years. Sixty percent of revenue would have gone back to consumers through a rebate, and the rest would have been invested in renewable energy, such as solar, wind and geothermal.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">A 2009 proposal by Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), would have established a $10-a-metric ton tax with a $10-a-year increase. The revenue would have been used to assist industries affected by the tax; to fill the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund; and to give taxpayers a payroll tax credit.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Exxon hasn’t issued a detailed policy position addressing these proposals or outlining how high such a tax should be to slow or halt global warming, how the tax should be structured, or what the revenue would be used for. The company has said only that it favors a revenue-neutral tax, meaning revenue from the tax would be returned to the public or businesses through tax cuts or some sort of rebate.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">The company does make clear that a carbon tax should supplant many kinds of emission controls. Exxon describes a carbon tax as “<a href="http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-policy/engaging/engagement-to-address-climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">a more effective policy option than cap-and-trade schemes, regulations, mandates, or standards</a>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">In his blog post, Cohen wrote that Exxon “has included a proxy price on carbon in our business planning since 2007” to “analyze the impact of a price on carbon.” The “proxy cost” approaches $80 a ton in some regions and is intended to reflect “all types of actions and policies that governments may take.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">However, Exxon says this “proxy” cost is not a recommendation.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“It is simply our effort to quantify what we believe government policies…could cost to our investment opportunities,” <a href="http://cdn.exxonmobil.com/_{/media/global/files/energy-and-environment/report---energy-and-carbon---managing-the-risks.pdf}" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">the company says</a>. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b>Kert Davies, founder of the Virginia-based <a href="http://www.climateinvestigations.org/" title="http://www.climateinvestigations.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Investigations Center</a>, an environmental advocacy organization, says he is skeptical of Exxon’s carbon tax position.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“It seems like Exxon favors a carbon tax when and if their arms are twisted behind their backs, but until that time, they only like the theory of a carbon tax when it gives them something to be ‘for,'” he said. “When Tillerson blurted out his personal predisposition against a carbon tax in 2013, it was probably a clue to the real conversation going on inside the company.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">At the time Tillerson made his comment in support of a carbon tax back in 2009, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill posed a potential threat to Exxon’s business. The measure was laden with loopholes and subsidies that would have kept coal competitive with lower-carbon natural gas, one of Exxon’s biggest products. The legislation passed the House by a vote of 219-212 but was never taken up by the Senate.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">In a potent bit of rhetoric, opponents of that bill often re-labeled it “cap and tax,” asserting that it was essentially the same thing as a carbon tax.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Bringing up a carbon tax as an alternative to cap-and-trade made sense for Exxon, business and political analysts wrote at the time. For one thing, each time the carbon tax idea has come up in Congress, it has been met with resistance by large numbers of lawmakers, as well as much of the domestic fossil fuel industry—especially the coal business—and politically influential organizations, including the American Petroleum Institute.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Exxon’s business would benefit from a carbon tax, said Bob Inglis, who introduced a bill in 2008 proposing a carbon tax while he was a Republican U.S. representative from South Carolina. Inglis said it would shrink the market for high-carbon fuels, especially coal, and increase demand for cleaner-burning fuels including natural gas. Because of this, the European energy giants wanted Paris negotiators to consider a price on carbon.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“Anybody who sells natural gas would do better if CO<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;">2</span> were taxed,” Inglis said. “Natural gas beats coal in the amount of CO<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;">2 </span>emissions. So if you make the dirtier burning fuels accountable for their emissions, it makes natural gas more attractive.” Inglis, who lost his seat in 2010 to a Tea Party-backed challenger largely because of his climate views, is now executive director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, a Virginia-based conservative think tank that addresses energy and climate issues.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Jerry Taylor, president of the <a href="https://niskanencenter.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">Niskanen Center</a><a href="https://niskanencenter.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 135, 64); text-decoration-line: none;">,</a> a self-described libertarian think tank, said Exxon may be embracing strategic reasons for supporting a carbon tax without pressing for one.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; grid-column: 4 / span 6; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Tiempos, serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">“Lobbying for a carbon tax may not be the best way the company sees of spending its political capital,” he said. Exxon may prefer to use its influence to advance oil and gas exploration on federal lands or to help lift the ban on exporting U.S. oil, which passed Congress last week, he said. Also, voicing support for a carbon tax is relatively safe because it isn’t likely to become a reality soon, Taylor said.</p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxonmobil-denies-lying-about-global-warming/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxonmobil-denies-lying-about-global-warming/</a></div><div>
</div><div>Scientific American</div><div>Climatewire</div><div>ENVIRONMENT</div><div><b>ExxonMobil Denies Lying about Global Warming</b></div><div>A spokesman for the oil giant refuted the basis of the New York Attorney General’s investigation</div><div>By Gayathri Vaidyanathan, ClimateWire on <b>November 6, 2015</b></div><div>
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</div><div>Exxon Mobil Corp. insisted yesterday that it has not lied to its shareholders about the risks of climate change as it reacted to news that New York’s attorney general is investigating the company’s climate statements to investors.</div><div>
</div><div>“Exxon Mobil recognizes that climate risks are real and responsible actions are warranted,” said<b> Ken Cohen</b>, the company’s vice president of public and government affairs, during a press call (E&ENews PM, Nov. 5).</div><div>
</div><div>New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) has issued a “broad” subpoena dealing with “our assessment of climate change,” Cohen said.</div><div>
</div><div>The New York Times reported yesterday that Schneiderman’s office has requested extensive financial records, emails and other documents going back more than a decade, to a time when the Kyoto Protocol, the current climate treaty, was being discussed.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Exxon allegedly funded groups at the time to undermine climate science, according to a Greenpeace investigation.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We were active in discussions about whether the Kyoto Protocol was an appropriate policy response,” Cohen said. “Our position, [which] continues to this day, [was] that an approach that would exclude the majority of the world’s emitters was not going to be an effective policy response to a global risk.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Exxon began informing investors about climate risks in 2007 in regulatory filings and corporate citizenship reports</b>. The company also began including a price on carbon in its internal business planning in 2007, which has ranged from $60 to $80 per ton, according to Yale Environment 360.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Exxon told Congress the same year that it had stopped funding climate change deniers, such as Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. But records obtained by the Climate Investigations Center show that Soon received funding from the company until 2010 (ClimateWire, March 23).</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Cohen drew a distinction between the company’s policy stance and its research into climate science. The company’s scientists have published numerous studies since the 1970s and have collaborated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since its inception, he said.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Schneiderman has reportedly been investigating Exxon for a year. His office is also investigating Peabody Energy, a large coal company, according to news reports. Beginning in September,InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times have published a series of articles finding that Exxon has a long history of climate research, which contradicts its stance on climate policy (ClimateWire, Oct. 28).</div><div>
</div><div>Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 id="link-78eb941e" class="css-1qxijs e1h9rw200" data-testid="headline" style="margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.75rem; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; width: 600px; max-width: 600px;">Regulating Drilling: The View From Exxon Mobil</h1></div><div data-testid="byline-timestamp" class="css-xt80pu eakwutd0" style="margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 600px;"><time class="ep4cyha0 css-1dy0ivn e16638kd0" datetime="2011-03-17T20:16:21-04:00" style="margin: 0px 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1rem; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;">March 17, 2011</time></div><div data-testid="byline-timestamp" class="css-xt80pu eakwutd0" style="margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 600px;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">to the Editor:</span></div></header><section name="articleBody" class="meteredContent css-1r7ky0e" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: row; height: 705px; width: 1200px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px calc((100% - 600px) / 2); padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">“<a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/07views.html" title=" " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891);">Address the Fears on ‘Fracking’</a> ” (Reuters Breakingviews, Business Day, March 7) portrays Exxon Mobil as forming “a united front against regulation.” Along with other companies, Exxon Mobil works with state regulatory authorities to develop sound, science-based regulations for oil and gas drilling. We are also engaged in industrywide efforts to develop best practices. </span><b>Exxon Mobil supports the disclosure of ingredients used in hydraulic fracturing fluids, including on a site-specific basis.</b></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;">The development of cleaner-burning natural gas is vital to our nation’s energy security and provides well-paying jobs and billions of dollars for federal, state and local economies. Hydraulic fracturing has been used safely since the 1940s in more than one million wells in the United States and is crucial to developing America’s vast unconventional gas resources.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;">According to a 2009 Global Insight <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.api.org/policy/exploration/hydraulicfracturing/upload/IHS_GI_Hydraulic_Fracturing_Exec_Summary.pdf" title=" " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891);">study</a>, without the use of hydraulic fracturing, our nation would lose 45 percent of its domestic natural gas production and 17 percent of its oil production within five years. This great domestic resource can be developed and is being developed responsibly. Exxon Mobil is working with others in the industry to advance sound operations and responsible practices. k<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> Cohen</span></p></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: row; height: 90px; width: 1200px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px calc((100% - 600px) / 2); padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;">Vice President, Public and Government Affairs, Exxon Mobil
Irving, Tex., March 14, 2011</p></div></div></section></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Irving, Texas, United States. 196 followers 182 connections.</font></font></font></font></div></div><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc" data-content-feature="2" style="contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing: <s>regulatory</s> ‎<s>affairs</s></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="d4rhi"><ul class="FxLDp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px 0px 16px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; list-style-type: none; width: 600px;"><li class="MYVUIe" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex;"><div class="XN9cAe" style="flex: 1 1 0%; box-sizing: border-box;"><div jscontroller="SC7lYd" lang="en" jsaction="QyLbLe:OMITjf" data-hveid="CBAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiAuaWv1qb6AhV5g2oFHRgoDu8QtJkDKAB6BAgQEAA" style="width: 600px;"><div class="kvH3mc BToiNc UK95Uc" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_ylfe7b" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: flex-start; position: relative; contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden;"><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0" style="contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohenken" data-ved="2ahUKEwiAuaWv1qb6AhV5g2oFHRgoDu8QFnoECA8QAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohenken&ved=2ahUKEwiAuaWv1qb6AhV5g2oFHRgoDu8QFnoECA8QAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EAqXMinuupAC&pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=exxon+ken+cohen+vice+president+and+head+of+regulatory+affairs&source=bl&ots=UfAciWJP2O&sig=ACfU3U3J3AJRcWQzg2GFEgaWnaG5tCQbrA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAuaWv1qb6AhV5g2oFHRgoDu8Q6AF6BAgYEAM" data-ved="2ahUKEwiAuaWv1qb6AhV5g2oFHRgoDu8Q6AF6BAgYEAM" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fuel markets: unstable at any price? : hearing before the ...</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://books.google.com<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" style=""> › books</span></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" style="" /></cite></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-flex; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="fG8Fp uo4vr" style="line-height: 1.58;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22United+States.+Congress.+House.+Committee+on+Government+Reform.+Subcommittee+on+Energy+Policy,+Natural+Resources,+and+Regulatory+Affairs%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAuaWv1qb6AhV5g2oFHRgoDu8Q9Ah6BAgYEAY" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs</a> · 2002 · ‎Butyl methyl ether</font></div><span class="aCOpRe ljeAnf" style="line-height: 1.58; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: -webkit-box; overflow: hidden; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Regulatory Affairs</span> ... says <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ken Cohen</span> , <span style="font-weight: bold;">vice president</span> of public affairs for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Exxon</span> Mobil Corp. in ...</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://exxonknew.org/exposing-exxons-lies/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">desmog:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon & Climate Change Denial</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil has spent tens of millions of dollars funding organizations questioning the existence of man-made climate change. From 1997 to 2005, Exxon gave at least $19.5 million in grants to climate change denial organizations. A total of at least $35 million in grants went to climate change denial groups between 1997 and 2016 with over $5 million of those donations earmarked for climate change. Many grant recipients were members of the Cooler Heads Coalition.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Investigations Center noted that Lee Raymond was responsible for promoting Ken Cohen, formerly Legal Counsel for Exxon, to the position of Vice President for Public and Government Affairs. Steve Coll wrote in Private Empire: [11]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Ken Cohen and his public affairs shop, in tandem with the K Street office in Washington, oversaw contributions to free-market advocates who published, spoke out, and file lawsuits to challenge policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or assess the long-term impact of global warming.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stance on Climate Change</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102015/Exxon-Sowed-Doubt-about-Climate-Science-for-Decades-by-Stressing-Uncertainty</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">as he wrapped up nine years as the federal government's chief scientist for global warming research, Michael MacCracken lashed out at ExxonMobil for opposing the advance of climate science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His own great-grandfather, he told the Exxon board, had been John D. Rockefeller's legal counsel a century earlier. "What I rather imagine he would say is that you are on the wrong side of history, and you need to find a way to change your position," he wrote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Addressed to chairman Lee Raymond on the letterhead of the United States Global Change Research Program, his September 2002 letter was not just forceful, but unusually personal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No wonder: in the opening days of the oil-friendly Bush-Cheney administration, Exxon's chief lobbyist had written the new head of the White House environmental council demanding that MacCracken be fired for "political and scientific bias."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon was also attacking other officials in the U.S. government and at the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), MacCracken wrote, interfering with their work behind the scenes and distorting it in public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon wanted scientists who disputed the mainstream science on climate change to oversee Washington's work with the IPCC, the authoritative body that defines the scientific consensus on global warming, documents written by an Exxon lobbyist and one of its scientists show. The company persuaded the White House to block the reappointment of the IPCC chairman,[ROBERT watson] a World Bank scientist. Exxon's top climate researcher, Brian Flannery, was pushing the White House for a wholesale revision of federal climate science. The company wanted a new strategy to focus on the uncertainties.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MacCracken had a long history of collaboration with Exxon researchers. He knew that during the 1970s and 1980s, well before the general public understood the risks of global warming, the company's researchers had worked at the cutting edge of climate change science. He had edited and even co-authored some of their reports. So he found it galling that Exxon was now leading a concerted effort to sow confusion about fossil fuels, carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect."To call ExxonMobil's position out of the mainstream is thus a gross understatement," MacCracken wrote. "To be in opposition to the key scientific findings is rather appalling for such an established and scientific organization."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon had turned a colleague into its enemy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was a vivid example of Exxon's undermining of mainstream science and embrace of denial and misinformation, which became most pronounced after President George W. Bush took office. The campaign climaxed when Bush pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. Taking the U.S. out of the international climate change treaty was Exxon's key goal, and the reason for its persistent emphasis on the uncertainty of climate science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This in-depth series by InsideClimate News has explored Exxon's early engagement with climate research more than 35 years ago – and its subsequent use of scientific uncertainty as a shield against forceful action on global warming. The series is based on Exxon documents, interviews, and other evidence from an eight-month investigation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"What happened was an incredible disconnect in people trained in physical science and engineering," recalled Martin Hoffert, a New York University professor who collaborated with Exxon's team as its early computer modeling confirmed the emerging scientific consensus on global warming. "It's an untold story of how we got to the point where climate change has become a threat to the world."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Uncertainty Agenda</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Bush-Cheney administration arrived in the White House in 2001, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) now had partners for a climate uncertainty strategy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just weeks after Bush was sworn in, Exxon's top lobbyist Randy Randol sent the White House a memo complaining that "Clinton/Gore carry-overs with aggressive agendas" were still playing a role at the IPCC as it prepared its next assessment of the climate science consensus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MacCracken and three colleagues should be replaced, or at least kept out of "any decisional activities," he wrote. Meanwhile, U.S. input to the IPCC should be delayed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further, two scientists highly critical of the prevailing consensus should be enlisted: John Christy of the University of Alabama should take the science lead and Richard Lindzen of MIT should review U.S. submissions to the IPCC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon had been circulating a proposal to fundamentally overhaul MacCracken's global change research program, by emphasizing the uncertainties of climate science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The timing was not coincidental because the administration, as required by law, was about to lay out a new federal climate research strategy. Exxon and its allies wanted the work done during the Clinton-Gore years to be marginalized.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2002, Flannery, Exxon's science strategy and programs manager, contacted John H. Marburger, the president's incoming assistant for science and technology, to pitch the company's favored approach of emphasizing the uncertainty. Earlier discussions, he asserted, "have not sought to place the uncertainty in the context of why it is important to public policy."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon's position paper, attached to his letter, took a dig at the work of the IPCC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A major frustration to many is the all-too-apparent bias of IPCC to downplay the significance of scientific uncertainty and gaps," the memo said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon had not always been so at odds with the prevailing science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the late 1970s, Exxon scientists had been telling top executives that the most likely cause of climate change was carbon pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels, and that it was important to get a grip on the problem quickly. Exxon Research & Engineering had launched innovative ocean research from aboard the company's biggest supertanker, the Esso Atlantic. ER&E's modeling experts, by the early 1980s, had confirmed the consensus among outside scientists about the climate's sensitivity to carbon dioxide.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The facts are that we identified the potential risks of climate change and have taken the issue very seriously," said Ken Cohen, Exxon's vice president of public and government affairs, in a press release on October 21 addressing the ICN reports. "We embarked on decades of research in collaboration with many parties."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon has declined to answer specific questions from InsideClimate News.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[grfx dialogue]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 1980 memo proposed an ambitious public-relations plan aimed at "achieving national recognition of our CO2 Greenhouse research program."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It is significant to Exxon since future public decisions aimed at controlling the build-up of atmospheric CO2 could impose limits on fossil fuel combustion," said the memo. "It is significant to all humanity since, although the CO2 Greenhouse Effect is not today widely perceived as a threat, the popular media are giving increased attention to doom-saying theories about dramatic climate changes and melting polar icecaps."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most of all, Exxon wanted a seat at the policy-making table, and the credibility of its research had earned that. In 1979, David Slade, manager of carbon dioxide research at the Energy Department, called it "a model for research contributions from the corporate sector."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat, invited Henry Shaw, an early Exxon scientist, to join the policy deliberations. He was the only industry representative invited to an October 1980 conference of the National Commission on Air Quality, newly set up by Congress, to discuss "whether potential consequences of increased carbon dioxide levels warrant development of policies to mitigate adverse effects."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Does Exxon Mobil have a constitutional right to sow doubt about climate science? That’s the subject of a high-stakes legal battle playing out between dozens of state attorneys general, members of Congress, corporate executives, and activists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last fall, investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that the oil giant has decades of internal documents showing that its own scientists and executives knew fossil fuels contributed to climate change. Publicly, the company argued that the threats posed by global warming were far from certain, presumably as part of an effort to fight off regulations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revelations have sparked a barrage of legal actions. The attorney generals of Massachusetts, California, and New York launched investigations of Exxon, while Democratic AGs from other states have expressed their support. Some have drawn parallels to the tobacco industry’s deception on the dangers of smoking. Exxon has countered that the investigations are unconstitutional and has filed motions asking courts to block the subpoenas. “This…is about freedom of political speech,” the company recently argued in the Massachusetts case.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March, US Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker served the company with a subpoena seeking records that he claimed might prove that Exxon had defrauded consumers and the government by “misrepresenting its knowledge” that its fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Walker specifically pointed to a state racketeering statute that prohibits obtaining money by false pretenses. He demanded any documents detailing Exxon’s knowledge of climate change and its strategies to address it, including research studies, publications, statements, and communications with outside groups. Exxon responded by filing a lawsuit against Walker to block the subpoena. Exxon prevailed on Wednesday, when Walker agreed to withdraw the subpoena.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon received some unusual assistance in its victory in the Virgin Islands case. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a tea-party-aligned Republican, went so far as to formally intervene—that is, he asked the court to allow the state of Texas to become a party to the case. Exxon, he wrote, had a First Amendment right to withhold the documents Walker was seeking. The brief was also signed by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R). (Paxton and Strange also objected to Walker’s use of a private law firm to help conduct the investigation.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is about the criminalization of speech and the criminalization of thought,” he said.In a press conference in May, Paxton had called Walker’s investigation “a fishing expedition of the worst kind” and said it represented “an effort to punish Exxon for daring to hold opinions on climate change that differ from theirs.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two days later, Republican members of the House Science Committee sent lettersto Walker and 16 Democratic attorneys general requesting documents related to the various Exxon investigations. They followed up with additional letters in June.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On June 15, Paxton and 12 other GOP attorneys general signed a letter criticizing the Exxon investigations. The letter laid out a free-speech argument in stark terms, saying, “Actions indicating that one side of the climate change debate should fear prosecution chills speech in violation of a formerly bi-partisan First Amendment consensus.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon, which is headquartered in Texas and is a major employer in the state, did not respond to a request for comment. The company’s former vice president of public and government affairs, Kenneth P. Cohen, previously told the New York Times, “We unequivocally reject the allegations that Exxon Mobil has suppressed climate change research.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paxton’s involvement in the case alarmed some environmentalists, who note that attorneys general are charged with enforcing state laws and regulations. It’s unusual for a state to intervene in support of a company that is under investigation, said Stacey Geis, managing attorney at Earthjustice, an environmental law organization.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s as if Paxton were trying to act as Exxon’s lawyer, she said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paxton’s deputy Brantley Starr disputed that allegation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If we were intervening on behalf of someone, it would be the Constitution,” he said in a phone interview.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael McConnell, a Stanford law professor and senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, agreed that Paxton’s intervention was “highly unusual.” Nevertheless, he added in an email that Walker’s subpoena was “quite possibly unconstitutional.” Exxon, he said, has “a right to have a position on global warming.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other scholars and activists reject that argument. Naomi Ages, a project leader at environmental advocacy group Greenpeace, called the Virgin Islands investigation “legitimate” and said Paxton’s intervention was “unprecedented” and based on “pretty specious legal grounds.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Post, the dean of Yale Law School, argues that it is “irresponsible to invoke the First Amendment” to defend Exxon. “There are circumstances when scientific theories must remain open and subject to challenge, and there are circumstances when the government must act to protect the integrity of the market, even if it requires determining the truth or falsity of those theories,” wrote Post in a Washington Post op-ed last week. “Public debate must be protected, but fraud must also be suppressed.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Starr counters that the Texas AG’s office was not claiming corporations can never be investigated for fraud, but rather that an investigation cannot be based on a public policy debate. “What we shouldn’t do is investigate public debate and say that there’s only one side of the public debate that we’re investigating,” he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paxton has received nearly $1 million dollars in contributions from the oil and gas industry during his seven runs for public office, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics. During a recent event at the conservative Heritage Foundation, he warned that the investigation of Exxon could have resulted in job losses in his state, though he declined to provide a specific estimate of how many jobs were in jeopardy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, Paxton is facing legal challenges of his own. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against him in April, alleging that he had recruited investors for a company without disclosing that he was receiving compensation in the form of stock in the company. This complaint followed three state criminal indictments on charges of securities fraud and failing to register as an investment adviser.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a video released by his campaign in May, Paxton called the charges “false” and “politically motivated.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked for comment on the SEC investigation at the Heritage Foundation event, Paxton declined to answer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Thursday, Paxton released a statement hailing the withdrawal of Walker’s Exxon subpoena as a triumph for free speech.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The so-called ‘investigation’ by Walker was a constitutionally improper attempt to suppress the freedom of speech based only on the content being communicated. In America, we have the freedom to disagree, and we do not legally prosecute people just because their opinion is different from ours.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon Mobil’s blog, titled “Perspectives,” posted a lengthy attack Friday about the divestment movement, which urges universities, churches, pension funds, and other big institutional investors to dump their shares of oil and coal companies as part of the fight against global warming.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only does Ken Cohen work in the oil and gas sector, one of the largest, most complex, and vital global industries, he is VP of public and government affairs at ExxonMobil, the biggest player in the market and the largest company in the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil reported 2011 global earnings of slightly more than $41 billion. With those numbers the company was able to regain the top spot on the Fortune 500 list, pushing Walmart into second place. Earnings for the first nine months of 2012 were $34.9 billion, up 10% compared to the same period in 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen began his career at Exxon in 1977 as a lawyer working his way up on the legal side until 1999, when the company acquired Mobil, and he was asked to build and run a combined public affairs group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, Cohen leads a global team of 460 full-time staffers who handle all external facing communications, including media relations, government affairs, and CSR, for the 80,000-employee company and is chairman of the ExxonMobil Foundation. The only exception is investor relations, which is handled by a different team.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Around the time of the acquisition, Exxon-Mobil invested resources on research with constituencies including customers and media to define effective ways to handle external challenges in areas such as corporate reputation. That information spurred the company to develop an integrated department that has evolved during the last decade. "If you were to go to a big public and government affairs firm they would have their best people ready and able to jump in and solve the problem," says Cohen. "That is the integrated approach we take."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The research also flagged up the growing power of social media, resulting in a much more proactive approach for the company on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook and more engagement of constituencies by senior management, including Cohen, via blogs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Social media outreach will increase going forward because it allows a conversation. "You can ask me questions, I can respond," adds Cohen, as opposed to having the story interpreted by journalists via traditional media.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999-present </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil, VP of public and government affairs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1977-1999 </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Various posts at Exxon. Began as attorney, legal department, (1977-1985). Named as chief attorney in refining, environment and health (1985-1989). Promoted to assistant general counsel, Exxon International (1989-1991); and to senior counsel and coordinator, law department (1991-1995); and later to general counsel, Exxon Chemical (1995-1999)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Educating the public </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The biggest challenge ExxonMobil and the industry face is that people don't know a lot about us. It's very frustrating. The extent of America's knowledge is when they pull up at the pump or plug something into the wall," explains Cohen. "We have to lay part of the blame at the doorstep of the industry. We have not done a very good job historically of explaining what we do."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And doing that requires clear and direct communication because even explaining the cost of gasoline, let alone the process behind the newer technologies of hydraulic fracturing, can be complex.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A lot of discussion now is centered on natural gas production. "North America has discovered this great bounty of natural gas. If you asked me six or seven years ago 'Is this going to change the landscape?' I would have questioned it," adds Cohen. "Today I sit here and say it's a game changer. Now, we are trying to explain the process by which we produce it and then the environmental benefits and issues that need to be man- aged from the production."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As with many communications efforts at ExxonMobil, the arc of that explanation must engage and educate the public in a story that began more than a decade ago. The gasoline a consumer buys today is the result of significant investment at least 10 years ago - five years of planning, five years in construction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Job growth has been a powerful messaging point. In an economic downturn, one of the few bright spots in the US has been the oil and gas industry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"ExxonMobil contributed $72 billion to the US economy through activities including taxes, salaries, returns to our investors, and payments to other businesses and industries," notes Cohen. "Some may feel there are political reasons for singling out the industry for punishment, but there aren't good economic ones. By seeking to remove standard tax provisions available to all other manufacturers and producers, the policy being suggested by the president and others would undermine one of the few sectors investing in America and creating jobs."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding for the future</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The quality of math and science education in the US is an important issue for ExxonMobil and Ken Cohen, VP of public and government affairs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are a company of scientists and engineers - 18,000 employees are scientists," explains Cohen. "The present and future of ExxonMobil is totally tied to the scientific and technology capabilities of our people."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response ExxonMobil has committed $125 million to a national initiative to improve math and science education in the US.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Ken is an invaluable member of our board," explains Tom Luce, chairman and founding CEO of The National Math and Science Initiative.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"He is strategic, focused, and results oriented and always seeking other corporate and foundation partners for our national effort."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen, soft-spoken, but clearly passionate and inspired by the changes he sees in the industry, is based at corporate headquarters in Dallas and reports to Michael Dolan, SVP, ExxonMobil.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The global energy industry is critical to economic progress and operates in a complex geopolitical environment; and Exxon- Mobil is an industry leader with a good story to tell," says Dolan. "Ken and his team understand that story and the world we are operating in. They help us cut through the noise with the right tools, tone, and messages to support our business objectives."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An important tool on the education front is the annual Outlook for Energy report the company generates that includes information from about 100 countries. It is built from the ground up every year and is the basis for ExxonMobil's business planning.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The comprehensive outlook includes an examination of all energy sources, consumption levels, future demand, and even drills down to what research is being done by auto- makers. During the last five years there has been a much broader dissemination of the report. ExxonMobil launched the 2013 version at a press conference in November in part to be more open about its research, but also to create a starting point for dialogue with policymakers and consumers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Addressing opponents </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"One of the challenges is that we have a very vocal and well-funded group of adversaries. Their objective is to get up every day and criticize what we do and convince policymakers that action is needed to restrict the operations of firms such as Exxon-Mobil," says Cohen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We have to find the right tone and way of engaging someone who has an entirely different point of view," he adds. "We should all at least make an effort to understand what the facts are so we have some common understanding of what the problem is."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company is looking at getting into areas in the Middle East previously only open to government-owned entities; taking a bigger position in Argentina on natural gas produced through new technologies; and looking to expand in Africa.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen says the hottest energy market is in North America, but "85% of potential oil- and gas-producing areas are off limits and in federal hands because of political reasons."Areas of interest include the outer continental shelf along the western part of the US, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and northern part of Alaska. "We have active discussions about opening areas up for exploration and development," he adds.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CSR can play a big role in those discussions both here and abroad. ExxonMobil is working with partners including the World Health Organization and Harvard to eradicate malaria in Africa, as well as funding programs that create job opportunities for women in areas such as the Middle East, and has made a commitment to fund education initiatives in the US (see sidebar).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year employees donated 729,000 hours of community service and the foundation gave $278 million in contributions. "We hope people realize that when we are operating in a community we are a good neighbor and a philanthropic force," explains Cohen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cohen to k st: all about 60th vote; arlington cit action team wrangled employees and retires [RETIRED big cat]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">company ExxonMobil</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">position Vice President of Public Affairs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Cohen studied undergraduate at Northwestern University and earned his J.D. degree from Baylor Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Baylor Law Review. He earned his LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he was a Sterling Fellow.  </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Cohen joined the Exxon’s legal department in 1977 after serving as an Assistant Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. He held a variety of staff assignments and, in 1985, he became Chief Attorney, Refining, Environment and Health. In 1989, he was named Assistant General Counsel, Exxon Company International; in 1991, he became Senior Counsel and Coordinator, Exxon Corporation Law Department. In 1995, he became General Counsel, Exxon Chemical Company; and in November 1999, he was named to his current position as Vice President of Public Affairs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this position Cohen has worldwide responsibility for the Company's government relations, communications, media relations, global community relations and corporate citizenship activities.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is also the head of ExxonMobil's PAC, and the head of the ExxonMobil Foundation that distributes charitable grants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: The Washington Post</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evidence</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PR weekly lists political influence as one of Ken Cohen's “Defining qualities.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Cohen claims that “Exxon Mobil Corp. never in the past decade doubted the risk from climate change” though Exxon, with Cohen in charge, has spent an estimated $23 million from 1998 to 2007 on think tanks and associations that attack the scientific evidence for human-induced global warming.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen received a letter from lead scientists at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment London School of Economics and Political Science asking why Exxon, under his leadership, continues to fund climate denial groups after he had committed to cutting off funding.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Vice president of government affairs, Ken has presided over almost $4 million on political campaign donations the Since 1999, including the $400,000 spent in 2010. and over $100 million on lobbying since 2005.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen regularly greenwashes the gas extraction process known as fracking, calling it safe and responsible.  Fracking is known to use millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking water.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Cohen writes a blog on exxonmobil’s website called “ExxonMobil perspectives” which promotes exxon’s propaganda talking points</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen has personally donated $51,023 to political campaigns.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links and Resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Open Secrets</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Desmogblog</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Washington Post</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vote 4 Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Quotes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It's like you think this [climate change] is a moral issue”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We didn't believe the Kyoto Protocol was an effective solution to reduce global emissions."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We try very hard to be a good corporate citizen and take our responsibilities seriously."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Valdez spill was a tragic accident. We took immediate responsibility for the spill, cleaned it up and stayed with it until it was declared complete by the State of Alaska and US Coast Guard… Today, the ecosystem in Prince William Sound is healthy, robust and thriving, according to many studies carried out by experts in this area."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Exxon Mobil Corp. never in the past decade doubted the risk from climate change”</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>