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ExxonMobil

Q&A: The Activist Investor Who Shook Up the Board at ExxonMobil, on How—or if—it Changed the Company

“If you've got a $30 billion project that is dependent on a certain level of demand for decades to come, you’re gonna fight like hell to make sure that demand is still there,” Charlie Penner said.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Charlie Penner
Large amounts of trash and plastic refuse collect in Ballona Creek after a major rain storm in Culver City, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UIG via Getty Images

California Attorney General Investigates the Oil and Gas Industry’s Role in Plastic Pollution, Subpoenas Exxon

By James Bruggers

American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal power plant opened a carbon capture unit (center right), alongside the plant's cooling tower and stacks in 2009. The project later died. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil refineries are seen off of the Houston Ship Channel in Houston, Texas on Sept. 29, 2014. Credit: Ken Cedeno/Corbis via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies Stand to Make Billions From Tax Break in Democrats’ Build Back Better Bill

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Jean L'Hommecourt visits a river near the Fort McKay First Nation's village about an hour's drive north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened

By Nicholas Kusnetz

This photograph taken on May 28, 2021 shows the new TotalEnergies logo during its unveling ceremony, at La Defense on the outskirts of Paris. Credit: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images

Total Accused of Campaign to Play Down Climate Risk From Fossil Fuels

By Tom Wilson

Vehicles refuel at an Exxon Mobil Corp. gas station in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 28, 2020. Credit: Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg via Getty Images

ExxonMobil Shareholders to Company: We Want a Different Approach to Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An Exxon gas station is seen in Burbank, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

From Denial to Ambiguity: A New Study Charts the Trajectory of ExxonMobil’s Climate Messaging

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An aerial view from a drone shows the Maryland State House, on April 16, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry

By David Hasemyer

Dar-Lon Chang, who was an engineer for ExxonMobil for more than 15 years, left his career in the fossil fuel industry in Houston and moved to the Geos Neighborhood in Arvada, Colorado with his wife and daughter. "I just wanted to go all the way and be a part of a community where my daughter could live fossil fuel-free and net-zero," he said. "So she could see it was possible." Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Disillusioned ExxonMobil Engineer Quits to Take Action on Climate Change and Stop ‘Making the World Worse’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Double Eagle Energy oil rig in Midland, Texas, on June 29, 2020. Credit: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

The Oil Market May Have Tanked, but Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Keep Republicans in Office

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An Exxon gas station is pictured in Washington on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Exxon Turns to Academia in an Attempt to Discredit Harvard Research

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces the more processed oil than any other facility in the United States on March 23, 2006 in Baytown, TX. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images)

Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing

By Nicholas Kusnetz

‘At the Forefront of Climate Change,’ Hoboken, New Jersey, Seeks Damages From ExxonMobil

By David Hasemyer

Oil companies have lost billions since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to new earnings reports. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Big Oil Took a Big Hit from the Coronavirus, Earnings Reports Show

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Officials assess the break in ExxonMobil's 838-mile Pegasus pipeline

No Restart in Sight for Burst Exxon Pipe

By Elizabeth Douglass

Cleanup efforts in the early days after the March 29 Exxon spill

On Pipeline Safety, Arkansas Must Settle for Symbolism

By Elizabeth McGowan

Pegasus pipeline cleanup

In Ark., Amount of Spilled Oil Is Guesswork

Elizabeth McGowan

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