ExxonMobil

Oil, gas, and coal company PACs spent too in failed efforts to keep GOP Senate control

ExxonMobil, Kinder Morgan and Occidental Petroleum are part of a coalition of companies that opposed a utility’s plan to provide 309 megawatts of new wind energy to customers in Texas. The oil and gas companies succeeded last week when the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of Texas rejected the plan by the utility, a subsidiary of...

Electric utilities played a prominent role in the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group that worked for over a decade to sow doubt about climate change and block efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new collection of documents released last week.   The collection represents the largest publicly available compilation of Global...

President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced back to the Manhattan Institute, a think tank backed by fossil fuel investor Paul Singer and companies like ExxonMobil. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey made waves at a press conference in February when they rolled out a Green...