Sentences with phrase «by exxon»

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil aimed at stopping an investigation by New York and Massachusetts officials into whether the oil giant misled investors and the public about its knowledge of...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil aimed at stopping an investigation by New York and Massachusetts officials into whether the oil giant misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change.

Ford became involved in at least five separate pieces of litigation related to a 1992 explosion at a Hong Kong power station ultimately owned by Exxon Petroleum.

Acting for Bolivia, we successfully discharged freezing injunctions in the value of US$ 12 billion obtained by Exxon Mobil against PDVSA, the Venezuela national oil company and the Republic of Bolivia.

While he should know — after all, his ruling just saved the company $ 2 billion — it probably won't look that way to the litigants harmed by Exxon's misconduct.

The article discusses some of the successful continency cases brought by large firms, such as the $ 2.5 billion verdict obtained by Faegre & Benson on behalf of a group of Alaskan fisherman claiming damage to their livelihood by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

As a media person himself, the only alternative he can imagine to politics mediated by Exxon marketing men is politics mediated by people «like himself».

I've posted a comment on CiF to point out that this organisation is funded by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total among others.

As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on our SourceWatch site, CEI has been well - funded by Exxon and other oil companies, and is one of the main U.S. corporate front groups fighting efforts to address global warming and regulate the industry that feeds it funding.

Lomborg has company in a long line (growing shorter by the day however) of so - called «skeptics,» not all of whom were paid by Exxon to gum up the green revolution to protect fossil - based corporate profits.

Somehow, the CEI has concluded that only heavy cars are safe (perhaps that's because they are partially funded by Ford, and until recently, they were also funded by Exxon).

Philip Sharp, president of Resources for the Future, told the Wall Street Journal that he was impressed by Exxon.

The LNG will come from a project being developed by Exxon Mobil and other investors in Papua New Guinea's central highlands.

The New York and Massachusetts investigations focus on whether past statements by Exxon questioning climate change science and downplaying its risks to the company constituted a form of fraud against its shareholders or the public.

Released on the heels of a July 2012 article in Rolling Stone by Dr. Bill McKibben warning that we had already discovered five times as much oil, gas, and coal than scientists concluded we could safely burn for energy, the ad reflected growing public concern regarding the climate change threat and a reaction to the continued presence of outright climate denialists bred by Exxon decades before.

Of course I know the standard responses... I'm not a climate scientist so what do I know anything, Nature is «Dr. Jones Peer Reviewed», everyone else is paid by Exxon, blah blah blah.

October 16, 1979 memo from Exxon's W.L. Ferral to Exxon's R.L. Hirsch about a study conducted by an Exxon summer employee named Steve Knisely.

Some of those Esef recruited as «academic members» were people working for US lobby groups later funded by Exxon, who have made false claims about climate change.

In an unprecedented ruling last year, Kinkeade ordered Healey and Schneiderman to appear for depositions under questioning by Exxon lawyers.

She then spends the rest of the article bashing the author, the journals the author published in, and trying to tie everything to some grand conspiracy funded by Exxon.

Gerlich participated in the anti-global warming study co-produced by the Exxon - funded George C. Marshall Institute, «Climate Change and Policy: Making the Connection».»

«This team must be recognized for its excellence in the scientific community, the government, and internally by Exxon management.»

I have always insisted that there have to be legit damages caused by Exxon not sharing their «secret» knowledge of human caused climate change from the world.

Compared to the sums made available for climate alarmism, even the ~ $ 45 million paid out by Exxon over the course of a decade (according to Greenpeace's Exxonsecrets website) is chicken feed.

I have just wasted two days commenting on Guardian environment, trying to get George to explain why it is ok for him to base his dire predictions of «the end of life as we know it» on research financed by Exxon, while we common mortals are frequently criticised for quoting sources funded by the same Exxon.

But how else can anyone respond to this reported comment by Exxon's CEO, who called climate change «manageable»?

We have already heard arguments about how this new group of scientists lacks authority, expertise, and how these scientists might be funded by Exxon Mobil.

He did this last year, and when I sent an FYI email comment about it to one of my pals at the Heartland Institute, it was expanded into this piece, «Ross Gelbspan: Up to His Old Tricks, Spreading Myths About Global Warming Skeptics» In a nutshell, it is not a wise move to say a place is «Koch - funded» when the place is not funded that way to any significant extent, nor was it wise to say Fred Singer was funded by Exxon in a major way when the bulk of the money figure Gelbspan spoke of was in the form of 2nd - hand free office space usage.

As the former Editor of DeSmogBlog, most of the climate deniers and self - proclaimed skeptics I have encountered over the years have been paid by Exxon, the Koch brothers or other such industry interests, making a good living as fake experts for hire.

The favorite argument of catastrophists in taking on skeptics is «all skeptics are funded by Exxon.»

In a 2007 report, the Union of Concerned Scientists described the GMI as a «clearinghouse for global warming contrarians» funded by Exxon Mobil Corporation and employing the same strategy formerly used by the tobacco industry, repeatedly attacking the science behind the theory and insisting that there was actually a great deal of uncertainty and disagreement among scientists.

He also acknowledged that SEPP is partially funded by Exxon, as reported by an article in The Heat is Online examining industry funding of the «greenhouse skeptics.»

Many here will also recall the partial ideological capture of the National Science Teachers Association by Exxon Mobil 5 years ago (and it would be good to see how things have evolved there).

«Chart Shows Why «CO2 is Good» For Climate Science Denial Groups Funded By Exxon and Kochs,» DeSmog, January 11, 2016.

I'm not that curious as to if McIntyre gets paid a million by Exxon.

Those wetlands, the activists write, «now serves as a storage area for diluted bitumen spilled by Exxon's negligence.»

I am aware of AGW apologists claiming that skeptics are bought and paid for by Exxon and the Koch family and should be treid as war criminals.

Although Cash has been «very encouraged by Exxon's response» to the spill, he said Lake Conway could still suffer «persistent and damaging effects.»

And that more generally (and trivially, if Russell Cook weren't complaining about the quoting process) this is an act by a group that includes Exxon Mobil, not by Exxon Mobil itself.

He took an interest in research by Exxon and outside scientists into the «greenhouse effect,» as climate change was then known.

In a particularly egregious episode, the American Enterprise Institute, which is partially funded by Exxon Mobil, offered a $ 10,000 bounty for any papers that could cast doubt on the 2007 United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Ford rather than consider the textual evidence before him, which clearly shows this, veers off into the question of who supplied the textual evidence, what other positions do they hold, and at some point will emerge triumphantly saying, you see, they are bad parents, have poor personal hygiene, and are funded by Exxon.

We know this $ 33M figure is an underestimate of the total spending by Exxon to fund opposition work on climate policy.

BTW, here's a reference to a paper from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2005) that will never be mentioned by the IPCC, on the JQ basis that any scepticism must have been paid for by Exxon.

EcoWatch concluded that the source for Inhofe's assertion was an «A discredited, ExxonMobil - funded study by an Exxon - funded advocacy group that was based on discredited studies by other ExxonMobil - funded organizations.»

He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.

The skies above the spill has been deemed a no - fly zone, and all requests for aerial photos must be approved by Exxon's own «aviation advisor» Tom Suhrhoff.

Since then, InsideClimate News published an exposé detailing a $ 30 million, multi-decade effort by Exxon Mobil to sow doubt about climate change, despite the company's own internal deliberations about known climate risks associated with fossil fuel use.

The company, called Wildlife Response Services, is now refusing to release pictures and documentation of the animals in their care, unless they are authorized by Exxon's public relations department.

He is currently employed by TCS Daily — an extreme right wing web - based news and lobbying outlet partly funded by Exxon Mobil.