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ExxonMobil

At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels

Heads of the world’s top oil companies met in Houston and said the war in Ukraine has helped make the case for fossil fuels and a “balanced” energy transition. As one executive put it: “Our strategy is to stay as oily as we can for as long as we can.”

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth (R) speaks with S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin during CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston, Texas on March 6, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images
People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Environmental activists rally for accountability for fossil fuel companies outside of New York Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Oil Companies Had a Problem With ExxonMobil’s Industry-Wide Carbon Capture Proposal: Exxon’s Bad Reputation

By Nicholas Kusnetz

ExxonMobil's Baytown Olefins Plant is part of a larger refinery complex, where the company has proposed building a hydrogen plant with carbon capture equipment. Exxon has said the project could cut greenhouse gas emissions at the refinery complex by "up to 30 percent." Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil Companies Are Eying Federal Climate Funds to Expand Hydrogen Production. Will Their Projects Cut Emissions?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Elida Castillo outside Exxon’s new plastics plant, eight miles from her family home in San Patricio County. Credit: Dylan Baddour

Corpus Christi Sold Its Water to Exxon, Gambling on Desalination. So Far, It’s Losing the Bet

By Dylan Baddour

A man walks through a flooded street the morning after the remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the New York City and New Jersey area on Sept. 2, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

New Jersey Joins Other States in Suing Fossil Fuel Industry, Claiming Links to Climate Change

By Jon Hurdle

Oil tanks and and oil refinery across from each other along side the Houston Ship Channel in Houston, Texas on Sept. 29, 2014. Credit: Ken Cedeno/Corbis via Getty Images

Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery in Baytown, TX. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Judge Upholds $14 Million Fine in Long-running Citizen Suit Against Exxon in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Charlie Penner

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

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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

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