Topic: Exxon Mobil

The Arkansas Pipeline Leak Is Another Tar Sands Red Flag

Reuters

Exxon moved quickly to put up oil containment booms, and there are no reports that any oil has entered Lake Conway in Arkansas. Or, rather, not oil. What spilled is a product called "diluted bitumen," or "dilbit" — the watered-down product of a fuel extracted from oil sands.

By Eric Randall

Jun 28, 2012

What Exxon's CEO Proposes We Do About Global Warming: 'We'll Adapt'

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson's predecessor Lee Raymond was famous for providing "logistical and moral support" (like cash) to climate change deniers, but these days Tillerson's taking a different, sort of casual-sounding tack: just deal with it.

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By Cora Currier, ProPublica

Apr 24, 2012

The Fracking Loopholes Being Peddled by Big Oil

One of the key controversies around fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas. Some companies have been reluctant to disclose what's in their fracking fluid.

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 6, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

A Solar Showdown in the Southwest; Big Oil's Republican Buy

The Los Angeles Times on solar in the Southwest, The New Yorker on the ExxonMobile and the GOP, Good on plastic bags, National Geographic on global warming and Inuits, and BBC on endangered ducklings

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 30, 2011

Exxon Is Going Drilling in the Russian Arctic

The effects global warming might actually make it easier for them to find oil

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 9, 2011

Apple Momentarily Passes Exxon as Most Valuable Company

In a nervous market, the tech company fares well, surpassing Exxon mobile

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By Erik Hayden

Apr 28, 2011

Exxon Earns $11 Billion in First Quarter

Just in time for another political freakout about higher gas prices

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