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Bigger benefits with bipartisan action now
The U.S. House of Representatives may vote soon to overturn the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil. That’s good news, because the economic benefits of lifting the ban – which a host of independent...
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Free trade lowering emissions
Exports of liquefied natural gas to U.S. trading partners could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released this week by Pace Global, a division of Siemens Business. The report...
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Setting the record straight on climate
An attack piece about ExxonMobil by Andrew Behar of As You Sow was recently published by The Hill and I feel compelled to respond as Behar is way off base on several fundamental points. In reality,...
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ExxonMobil’s commitment to climate science
Some recent critics of ExxonMobil, notably Bill McKibben and Naomi Oreskes, are expressing surprise to hear that ExxonMobil helped pioneer research into climate change science in the 1970s and ’80s....
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Here we go again…
InsideClimate News has run another piece attempting to twist our words relating to the important subject of climate change. The unsubstantiated claim this time is that in highlighting a chart from the...
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More backtracking by InsideClimate News
InsideClimate News continues to back away from the main theme of its discredited stories that mischaracterized ExxonMobil’s history of climate research. I had an opportunity yesterday to discuss these...
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A history lesson for InsideClimate News
The activists at InsideClimate News are up with another story that fundamentally misrepresents ExxonMobil’s climate research. You’ll recall that ICN erroneously stated, “Toward the end of the 1980s,...
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Washington Post – Half right, half wrong
Half right and half wrong. That describes a recent editorial in the Washington Post about ExxonMobil’s climate-related research. The Post ran a letter-to-the-editor response from me in Thursday’s...
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ExxonMobil on the U.N. climate talks
Many people have asked for our thoughts on the United Nations Climate Change Conference getting underway in Paris. When it comes to COP21, we are hopeful that an agreement will be reached for...
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ExxonMobil and the carbon tax
Earlier today I provided our position on the COP21 climate conference and briefly covered our long-standing support for a revenue-neutral carbon tax. I thought I would take the opportunity here to...
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The strengthening case for LNG exports
When it comes to exports of liquefied natural gas, U.S. law is crystal clear: The Natural Gas Act directs federal authorities to issue an order approving any application to import or export natural gas...
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DOE has overwhelming evidence to approve LNG exports
For years, the Department of Energy has been studying the potential economic effects of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. In 2012, DOE commissioned a study that concluded the U.S. economy would...
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Focus on Technology: Hydraulic fracturing
Fracking is back in the news. It’s been a focus of recent election debates, and today, President Obama announced new methane regulations would be developed, affecting hydraulic fracturing operations....
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A disappointing decision on Atlantic energy development
The U.S. government estimates that more than 3.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil and more than 31 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lie off the country’s Atlantic Coast. That’s equal to the energy...
View ArticleExxonMobil responds to state AGs
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman held a press conference today with former Vice President Al Gore and a few state-level attorneys general at which a number of discredited allegations against...
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Signing the Paris accord a step forward
Leaders and representatives from governments around the world gathered at United Nations headquarters in New York this morning to put their signatures on the agreement worked out last December at the...
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Survey Says … Consumers concerned about ethanol rules
The American Petroleum Institute recently commissioned a survey of Americans about the Renewable Fuel Standard. What they found from a cross section of America was a lot of concern. Longtime readers...
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Safe Arctic energy development
Last week a number of members of Congress asked Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to strip Arctic lease sales from the upcoming five-year oil and gas leasing program. “The Arctic Ocean should be...
View ArticleAlgae: How beneficial can it be as a biofuel of the future?
Mention algae to most people and their thoughts turn to the scum in fish tanks or ponds. But while algae may be a nuisance to some, to the scientists at ExxonMobil it’s cutting-edge stuff. Could algae...
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Lubricating wind power
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