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Judge Throws Out ExxonMobil Challenge To Climate Investigations

April 5, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - A lawsuit by ExxonMobil seeking to block climate change fraud investigations by the attorneys general of Massachusetts and New York has been dismissed—at least for now. The ruling came from the New York federal judge who took over the case last week after a judge in Texas transferred it to her jurisdiction. Although the order by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni puts an end to the lawsuit filed by Exxon in Texas last year, the case may be refiled in as little as a month. Caproni issued her order within a day of being assigned the case. It was a mostly procedural action to reset the suit for consideration in New York. She set an April 12 deadline for Exxon and the attorneys general to file briefs outlining how the two sides expect to proceed.

Judge Orders Exxon To Turn Over Tillerson’s ‘Wayne Tracker’ Climate Emails

March 24, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Investigation, Rex Tillerson, Trump Administration

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - Exxon officials have been ordered by a New York judge to explain how the company overlooked a shadow email account used by its former chief executive Rex Tillerson while the company was under subpoena by the New York attorney general's office. Judge Barry Ostrager ordered Exxon to provide sworn affidavits describing the company's process for identifying and turning over documents. He also demanded an explanation of what documents may have been lost and how that happened. Ostrager also gave the company until March 31 to surrender documents associated with Tillerson, now serving as secretary of state, and five other members of Exxon's management committee.

Mass. Adds To Call For ‘Wayne Tracker’ Emails In Exxon Climate Probe

March 22, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Investigation

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - While Exxon called the New York attorney general's claim that Rex Tillerson used an alias email to hide crucial climate discussions "preposterous," the Massachusetts attorney general's office wants to make sure those emails are preserved so investigators can determine whether they contain evidence that Exxon's leadership misled the public and investors. Maura Healey's office sent Exxon a letter directing the company to save the emails, which it says would fall under its civil investigative demand—similar to a subpoena—it issued last year seeking Exxon records. "Exxon's reported failure to identify the aliases in the New York case raises serious concerns...

Exxon Says Some Emails From ‘Wayne Tracker’ Alias May Be Lost

March 21, 2017 Erik Larson, www.bloomberg.com Educate! Climate Change, Exxon, Trump Administration

By Erik Larson for Bloomberg - Exxon Mobil Corp. says a technical glitch may have prevented it from automatically preserving emails in a secondary account used by former Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson to discuss climate change risks and other issues under the alias Wayne Tracker. Tillerson, now U.S. Secretary of State, used the pseudonym account for sending the most sensitive messages to company board members, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is investigating whether the company misled investors for years about the possible impact of climate change on its business. Schneiderman this week accused Exxon of failing to alert his office to the existence of the Wayne Tracker email account

Tillerson Used Alias To Discuss Climate Change When CEO Of Exxon

March 15, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Exxon, Trump Administration

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - While he was chief executive of ExxonMobil, current secretary of state Rex Tillerson used an alias email account for eight years to discuss climate change and the risks it posed to the company's business, according to investigators for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Those investigators say the company concealed the shadow emails despite a 2015 subpoena for Tillerson's communications issued as part of a sweeping investigation of the oil giant in connection with possible financial fraud. Schneiderman's office disclosed the existence of the email account assigned to Tillerson on Monday in a letter to Judge Barry Ostrager, which accused Exxon of failing to turn over all relevant documents required by the subpoena.

Exxon Adviser Resigns Over Oil Giant’s ‘Targeted Attacks’ On NGOs

February 14, 2017 Chris D’Angelo, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Exxon, NGOs, Oil & Gas

By Chris D’Angelo for The Huffington Post - A research scholar at New York University has resigned from Exxon Mobil Corp.’s External Citizenship Advisory Panel, citing what she calls the oil giant’s “targeted attacks” on environmental groups under former CEO Rex Tillerson’s watch. In a letter this week to Exxon Mobil Foundation president Ben Soraci, Sarah Labowitz expressed her disgust with the company’s continued assault on organizations investigating whether Exxon covered up the risks of climate change. Labowitz, a co-founder and co-director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Huffington Post that she has studied many companies facing serious public criticism, often in her field of human rights.

Rex Tillerson Refuses Responding To Exxon Mobil’s Climate Change Denial

January 13, 2017 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Educate! Climate Change, Exxon, Oil

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - During his confirmation hearing, former Exxon Mobil CEO and nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, refused to answer questions about what the fossil fuel corporation knew about climate change. He also refused to talk about Exxon Mobil’s funding of outside organizations in order to create doubt about climate science. Environmental groups are terribly alarmed by the prospect of having Tillerson at the helm of the United States State Department, especially as the threat of climate disruption caused by humans intensifies. Activists organized a “Reject Rex” campaign that includes protests at Tillerson’s confirmation hearing. Democratic Senator Tim Kaine asked Tillerson about journalism...

Rex Tillerson Is Big Oil Personified. Damage He Can Do Is Immense

January 12, 2017 Bill McKibben, www.theguardian.com Educate! Exxon, Oil

By Bill McKibben for The Guardian - In one of the futile demonstrations that marked the run-up to the Iraq war, I saw a woman with a sign that read “How Did Our Oil End Up Under Their Sand?” In nine words she managed to sum up a great deal of American foreign policy, back at least as far as the 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh in Iran and helped toss the Middle East into its still-boiling cauldron. If the Senate approves Rex Tillerson after his testimony on Wednesday, they’ll be continuing in that inglorious tradition – in fact, they’ll be taking it to a new height, and cutting out the diplomats who have traditionally played the middleman role.

Oil Change International Statement On First Morning Of Tillerson Hearing

January 12, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Oil, Rex Tillerson

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - “Rex Tillerson seems determined to run US foreign policy like he ran Exxon: deny, evade, and even lie, in order to defend power and certainly without regard to any 'moral compass'. "The first morning of Rex Tillerson’s testimony showed that Rex Tillerson’s 41 years at ExxonMobil have prepared him for one thing only: to be CEO of ExxonMobil. Tillerson filibustered, dodged, and floundered through questions about Aleppo, Russia, and other imminent global threats. He appears to have lied under oath about Exxon’s lobbying against Russian sanctions. The Boy Scouts should demand that Tillerson return his Honesty Badge.

Federal Investigation Of Exxon Likely To Fizzle Under Trump

January 7, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Donald Trump, Exxon

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - Over the past year, the battle lines formed along partisan lines on the question of whether the Justice Department should launch a probe into ExxonMobil's stance on climate change. The designated referee in that battle was to have been U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who received the formal letters staking out each side's position on an investigation. One of those letters, sent by five Republican senators sympathetic to Exxon, carried the signature of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump's choice to succeed Lynch as the next attorney general.

Trump’s Secretary Of State Gets $182 Million Golden Parachute

January 6, 2017 Wires and David Martosko, www.dailymail.co.uk Educate! Donald Trump, Exxon, State Department, Trump Administration

By Wires and David Martosko For Dailymail - Rex Tillerson, the nominee of President-elect Donald Trump for secretary of state, is severing ties with Exxon Mobil through a $182 million retirement package ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing. Tillerson was expected to step down as CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. in March when he turned 65, the company's mandatory retirement age. Exxon said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that Tillerson has agreed to give up approximately 2 million unvested shares. If his appointment is confirmed, the value of those shares – worth about $182 million at Tuesday's closing price – that Tillerson would have received over the next 10 years will be transferred to an independently managed trust, the company said in a statement.

Youth Seek Testimony From Exxon’s Rex Tillerson In Fed. Climate Lawsuit

December 30, 2016 Staff, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Lawsuit

By Staff of Eco Watch - The notice seeks Tillerson's testimony by way of deposition on Jan. 19, 2017, in Dallas, Texas. The notice was served on Sidley Austin, the law firm representing three defendants in the constitutional climate lawsuit: American Petroleum Institute (API), National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). In his deposition, Tillerson will be asked questions about his knowledge relevant to the youths' claims that their constitutional rights have been violated. As CEO of ExxonMobil, Tillerson has unique personal knowledge of the fossil fuel industry's historical relationship with the federal government.

Exxon, Qatar Petroleum Get OK To Export U.S. Fracked Gas

December 27, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Exxon, Fracking, LNG, Oil Export

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - Just days before Christmas, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave ExxonMobil a gift: a permit to export natural gas from its Golden Pass LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility located in Sabine Pass, Texas. Dubbed Golden Pass Products, the expansion of this LNG facility to export gas is a joint venture between Exxon (30 percent stake) and Qatar Petroleum (70 percent stake), the state-owned oil company. Golden Pass LNG is now the fourth LNG export facility, and third situated along the Gulf of Mexico, approved under the Obama administration.

Tillerson Directed Offshore Company Used In Russia Deals

December 19, 2016 Sasha Chavkin, www.icij.org Educate! Donald Trump, Exxon, Russia

By Sasha Chavkin for ICIJ - Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil chieftain nominated by Donald Trump to be Secretary of State, was a director of an offshore company in the Bahamas that is at the heart of Exxon’s close business dealings with Russia. Tillerson was appointed in 1998 as a director of Exxon Neftegas, an ExxonMobil subsidiary involved in oil and gas operations in Russia, according to leaked documents from the Bahamas corporate registry received by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with ICIJ. Tillerson was named president of Exxon Neftegas in the same year, but his position on the board of the Bahamas-based company has not been previously reported.

Exxon Won’t Sponsor AGU, A Win Of Sorts For Oil Giant’s Opponents

December 7, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Exxon, Oil

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - Energy giant ExxonMobil won't be a sponsor of the largest earth and space science conference for the first time since at least 2001. It was Exxon's decision not to provide any funding for the annual conference, which will be held next week in San Francisco, according to a blog post last week from the conference organizers, the American Geophysical Union. This news follows a nearly year-long campaign, in which more than 60,000 scientists, activists and others urged AGU to not accept Exxon's money because they say the company has contributed to the spread of misinformation about climate change.

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