exxon

What’s with Exxon’s big algae push?

ExxonMobil says it's developing a low-carbon fuel that will change the way we power everything from cars to jet planes. Here are the issues with that.

Rex Tillerson funded climate denial at Exxon. Now he’s suddenly a big fan of facts.

"If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities ... then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.”

Exxon is looking for ways to slash carbon emissions

While under fire publicly for climate change, the company has found a way to cool down chemical manufacturing.

Natural gas drilling is causing earthquakes in Europe too

Shell and ExxonMobil ignored for decades that drilling in Europe’s largest gas field was triggering quakes.

14 questions for Exxon from an oil spill expert

Exxon’s tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas is highlighting concerns about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, and raising questions about the risks of existing pipelines transporting diluted tar sands crude. In a familiar pattern for the oil industry, Exxon is impeding access to the spill, controlling information about the impacts, and threatening reporters with […]

Genius ad finally says it out loud: Exxon hates your children

This ad could be on TVs across the country in just a few days.

Critical List: Biden stumps for clean energy; the magical green properties of concrete

"The biggest mistake this nation has made in its entire history" would be not to invest in clean energy, VP Joe Biden said yesterday at the National Clean Energy Summit 4.0

The Russian government just cut a deal with Exxon to look for oil in that country’s sector of the Arctic. The next day, Russia raided BP’s Moscow offices.

George Monbiot argues that fracking without regulation is insane.

Critical List: Exxon could lose a big Gulf oil lease; alligator fat makes good biofuel

Exxon could lose its lease on one of its biggest oil finds ever.

Bill McKibben explains why Keystone XL protesters will wear Obama '08 buttons.

Isn’t there some place to put a big wind farm that won't threaten endangered species of birds? (Spoiler: No. Or anyway, not South Texas.)

Critical List: Oil spills into Yellowstone River; Americans are driving less

42,000 gallons of Exxon oil spilled into the Yellowstone River in Montana over the weekend. Regulators had warned the company that the pipe wasn't safe.

The river's particularly high, which isn't helping clean-up.

Atmospheric pollution from China's coal use temporarily masked global warming: sulfur particulates reflected more light back into space, keeping the planet’s temperature from rising too fast. But over time the carbon dioxide released from the coal will push temperatures upwards.