While Exxon Touts Net-Zero Promise, its Huge Plastics Complex Goes Online in Texas

The same day ExxonMobil announced its ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, word spread that its mammoth plastics manufacturing complex near Corpus Christi, Texas, had begun production.  “We are up and operating. We have...

Exxon Is Using an Unusual Texas Law to Intimidate Critics of Its Climate Denial

The oil firm claims its history of publicly denying the climate crisis is protected by the first amendment.

Exxon Net-Zero Plan Called Greenwashing From 'Climate Liar'

"I don't give a damn if Exxon is changing the lightbulbs at their office: it's the millions of barrels of oil they're producing that are the problem."

How Exxon Is Using an Unusual Law to Intimidate Critics Over its Climate Denial

By Chris McGreal, The Guardian. This story was originally published by The Guardian, and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. ExxonMobil is attempting...

How Exxon Is Leveraging Texas Courts to Silence Its Climate Critics

America’s largest oil firm claims its history of publicly denying the climate crisis is protected by the First Amendment.

Ground Flare At Mammoth New Exxon SABIC Plastics Plant Likened to A Harmless ‘Barbecue’ In Corporate Video

This story is part of a collaboration between DeSmog and Public Health Watch. “The normal flare plus the BBQ is on,” Elida Castillo, the program director of Chispa Texas, an environmental advocacy group, wrote to me in a text on December 6. It was...

Exxon Staff Wins Company-Wide Pizza Party After Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit New High

IRVING, TX—Following the release of a World Meteorological Organization report that found greenhouse gas concentrations reached a new high in 2020, sources confirmed the staff of ExxonMobil was rewarded Tuesday with a company-wide pizza party. “We...

To Find Out If ExxonMobil Really Supports a Carbon Tax, Just Follow the Money

When then-ExxonMobil lobbyist Keith McCoy conceded in a secretly recorded video in May that the oil giant voiced support for a carbon tax only because it

Exxon-Tied Manchin Favors Climate Policies Pushed by the Oil and Gas Industry

Manchin owns $1 to 5 million in stock in a coal-tied company, which made him nearly $500,000 in dividends in 2020.

Exxon Helped Cause the Climate Crisis. It’s Time They Paid Up.

The COP26 climate summit will be an opportunity to put fossil fuel companies on trial through the court of public opinion.

Ocasio-Cortez Slams Manchin for $3.5T Bill Opposition, Points Out Exxon Ties

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez panned the senator, pointing out his close ties to Exxon lobbyists.

Exxon’s Oil Drilling Gamble Off Guyana Coast Could Turn Country from a Carbon Sink to a “Carbon Bomb”

Despite desperate climate warnings against new fossil fuel development, ExxonMobil is pursuing a massive new oil project in Guyana that is projected to be the corporation’s largest oil production in the world. A new investigation by Antonia...

'Bombshell' lobbyist video reveals Exxon's secret campaign to water down U.S. climate legislation

Climate experts pointed to the footage as confirmation of findings from previous investigations into the company