"... because the government is earning money by sacrificing its own people, as is Shell and Exxon ... it’s going to have to be the people themselves who will have to stop this.”

ExxonMobil [spent] extraordinary sums on lobbying ($240 million since 1998) and in 2001 ... sent a memo to the White House asking the new (Bush) administration to get rid of the scientist who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... and that a number of others be fired from their jobs in the White House and the State Department, to be replaced by known climate skeptics. Exxon, whose CEO was old friends with Vice President Dick Cheney, got its wishes.

The company is accused of ignoring its own climate change science for years.

ExxonMobil has filed an application with the Afghan government to bid on a group of Afghanistan oilfields containing an estimated 1 billion barrels of oil and gas. via ExxonMobil Announces Bid for Afghan Oilfields — News from Antiwar.com.

Wake up and smell the frack fluid. But don’t ask what’s in it, at least not in Ohio, cause it’s still not your right to know. Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon’s lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio ...

ExxonMobil Chairman/CEO Rex Tillerson sounded very confident when he told a congressional hearing last year that extracting natural gas by the “hydraulically fractured” process has not led to even one “reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated.” But drinking water supplies in Pavillion, Wyo., and Dimock, Pa., are suspected of contamination from such drilling and a study ...

Serious spills of oil and gas from North Sea platforms are occurring at the rate of one a week, undermining oil companies’ claims to be doing everything possible to improve the safety of rigs. Shell has emerged as one of the top offenders despite promising to clean up its act five years ago after a large accident in which two ...