Exxon and Polar Caps
Darren Woods
Chairman Current CEO of Exxon
Rex Tillerson
Former CEO of Exxon
Used to be in refining and chemical division ($7.8B net income)
US Secretary of State (Trump’s cabinet) for a few months (shortest in history, replaced by mike pompeo)
Favored carbon tax to avoid cap and trade legislation (carbon pricing)
Big oil companies actually do believe in climate change/global warming but will not admit to it because they profit from it.
Exxon has a 3.2B partnership with Russia’s Rosneft — there is said to be a quarter of the planet’s petroleum under the arctic and the melting sea ice makes it more accessible to drill into.
So shell, a different giant oil company, had access to areas north of Alaska but pulled out because of legal setbacks, publicly claimed decarbonizing is inevitable for the sake of the planet.
Politicians and Corruption
Pete Sessions
US Rep from Texas (Republican)
Over $1M from oil and gas companies
Against federal regulation of greenhouse gases
Sponsored bill to delay (9 years !!) ozone reparations
Voted against hurricane relief from sandy
Collin Peterson
US Rep from Minnesota (Democrat)
$310k from fossil fuel interests
Voted in support of weaker ozone standards
Publicly claimed he will not be support any kind of climate change bill (originally proposed by obama administration)
SOURCES:
https://nypost.com/2014/02/01/big-oil-not-only-believes-in-global-warming-theyll-profit-from-it/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/oil-companies-admit-climate-change-is-real-say-dont-blame-us
http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017309299