Comments on: Exxon Accused of Years of Polluting and Denialism https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2016/02/20/exxon-accused-of-years-of-polluting-and-denialism/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Team 350.org https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2016/02/20/exxon-accused-of-years-of-polluting-and-denialism/#comment-185901 Team 350.org Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:01:35 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=16741#comment-185901 <strong>The Greatest Corporate Scandal of All Times?</strong> Dear Friends, We’re all grown-up enough to know that corporations don’t always do the right thing. But sometimes they do the wrong thing so spectacularly you just have to speak up. And that’s the case with Exxon, the company at the core of what may be the greatest corporate scandal of all time. Which is why it would be very helpful if you would write your state’s Attorney General and get them to join in the expanding probe of Exxon’s action. Beginning last fall, newspaper accounts from Pulitzer-prize winning journalists demonstrated that Exxon—as early as the late 1970s—had known all there was to know about climate change. They used that knowledge to bid on leases in the melting Arctic, and to build their own drilling rigs to cope with the sea level rise they knew was coming. But they didn’t tell the rest of us. Instead they devoted their wealth to spreading disinformation, funding the think tanks that followed Big Tobacco’s playbook. If they’d told the truth, we could have skipped the last quarter century of phony debate about climate change and gotten down to work on the solutions. The Attorney Generals from New York and California have already launched probes of Exxon’s conduct. But they need other states involved too, just as they were with the tobacco investigations. Next week, the National Association of Attorney Generals is meeting in DC, and we want to hand them a cracking big petition asking them to get involved. Sign on, and we’ll get your message to the big Attorney Generals meeting in Washington next week. Your Attorney General has some catching up to do. Now is the perfect time to build some momentum. #ExxonKnew, and we’re not going to let anyone forget. Thanks, Bill McKibben for the 350.org team P.S. There's some more background on the whole Exxon affair in this piece of mine that just came out. (Warning: it’s a little on the long side.) See it here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176105/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Team 350.org is building a global climate movement. Become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. And, you can add your voice to our petition at: http://350.org The Greatest Corporate Scandal of All Times?

Dear Friends,

We’re all grown-up enough to know that corporations don’t always do the right thing.

But sometimes they do the wrong thing so spectacularly you just have to speak up. And that’s the case with Exxon, the company at the core of what may be the greatest corporate scandal of all time. Which is why it would be very helpful if you would write your state’s Attorney General and get them to join in the expanding probe of Exxon’s action.

Beginning last fall, newspaper accounts from Pulitzer-prize winning journalists demonstrated that Exxon—as early as the late 1970s—had known all there was to know about climate change. They used that knowledge to bid on leases in the melting Arctic, and to build their own drilling rigs to cope with the sea level rise they knew was coming.

But they didn’t tell the rest of us. Instead they devoted their wealth to spreading disinformation, funding the think tanks that followed Big Tobacco’s playbook. If they’d told the truth, we could have skipped the last quarter century of phony debate about climate change and gotten down to work on the solutions.

The Attorney Generals from New York and California have already launched probes of Exxon’s conduct. But they need other states involved too, just as they were with the tobacco investigations. Next week, the National Association of Attorney Generals is meeting in DC, and we want to hand them a cracking big petition asking them to get involved.

Sign on, and we’ll get your message to the big Attorney Generals meeting in Washington next week.

Your Attorney General has some catching up to do. Now is the perfect time to build some momentum.

#ExxonKnew, and we’re not going to let anyone forget.

Thanks, Bill McKibben for the 350.org team

P.S. There’s some more background on the whole Exxon affair in this piece of mine that just came out. (Warning: it’s a little on the long side.)

See it here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176105/

> > > > > > > > > > > >

Team 350.org is building a global climate movement. Become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. And, you can add your voice to our petition at:

http://350.org

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