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- October 5, 2022
ExxonKnew Is PR and Politics in Search of A Shakedown
ExxonKnew Is PR and Politics in Search of A Shakedown Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog….- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 27, 2020
What Year Is It? BBC Rehashes #ExxonKnew Using the Same Old Sources
The BBC is the latest legacy media institution that’s done a deep dive into the “Exxon Knew” campaign and churned out a 10-part podcast series that features very little in the way of new reporting but includes plenty of biased voices looking to smear the energy industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2020
Four Things to Know About Washington D.C.’s New Climate Lawsuit
Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell today for allegedly misleading District consumers about the role the companies’ products play in causing climate change.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2020
Three Things to Know About Minnesota’s New Climate Lawsuit
On Wednesday, Minnesota became the latest state to file a climate lawsuit against the energy industry. This marks the first lawsuit of this kind to be filed after the failure of the New York Attorney General’s case against ExxonMobil last fall. At- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2020
Activists Now Suggest Exxon is Responsible For…A Global Hacking Ring?
Here they go again. The people who concocted, financed and executed the “Exxon Knew” charade appear to have launched a new attack in their crusade to “establish in public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution.”- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 13, 2020
Catalyst Organization Behind #ExxonKnew Acknowledges It Knew Too
A key organizer and funder of the “Exxon Knew” campaign – which hinges on the debunked allegation that ExxonMobil knew about climate change long before the public and subsequently tried to cover up this knowledge and mislead the public – also credits itself for its “early recognition” of the issue in the 1980s.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 29, 2020
Activists Are Preparing Congress to Investigate Energy Companies
A reporter for the Guardian secretly edited their reporting to obscure revelations that the ringleaders of the “Exxon Knew” campaign are working to prepare Democrats on Congressional committees to hold a “Waxman-style” hearing like the one that investigated tobacco companies in the 1990s.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 3, 2020
Anti-Energy Researcher Naomi Oreskes Calls For Regulations on Free Speech
Climate activist and researcher Naomi Oreskes suggested in a recent interview that journalists shouldn’t speak to energy producers, and that energy companies’ speech should be regulated on social media, because she considers what they have to say to be propaganda.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 12, 2019
From a ‘BIG DEAL’ to No Comment, Here’s How ‘Exxon Knew’ Activists Reacted to Losing the Climate Case They Had Championed
Prior to the trial in the New York attorney general’s (NYAG’s) case against ExxonMobil, climate activists and members of the media were certain the NYAG’s lawsuit would be the nail in the coffin for the fossil fuel industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 11, 2019
NRDC Gang and Rockefellers Blown Out of Court on #ExxonKnew
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The NRDC gang, a/k/a the Rockefeller family, has just lost a big one and in New York County, New York, no less!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 10, 2019
New York’s Loss Against Exxon Casts a Shadow on Related Cases Filed in Massachusetts, Elsewhere
After four years, three different legal theories, four million documents, hundreds of hours of depositions, 11 embarrassing days of trial for the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and a month long wait, the verdict is in: ExxonMobil did not deceive or mislead investors over climate change impacts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 6, 2019
Shady Climate Group ‘Releases’ Industry Documents That Were Already Publicly Available
Kert Davies’ Climate Investigations Center (CIC) is at it again, trying to create a scandal by releasing cherry-picked documents from Imperial Oil’s publicly available archive, even as CIC was slammed by a non-profit group Thursday for “using dishonest and potentially unlawful business practices and wasting tax dollars to engage in its investigations.”- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 8, 2019
Exxon Attorney Calls New York’s Lawsuit a ‘Cruel Joke’ in Defiant Closing Statement
ExxonMobil attorney Ted Wells unleashed a brutal takedown of the New York Attorney General’s case in his closing arguments Thursday, criticizing the State’s inept performance and highlighting their inability to prove any of the allegations leveled against the company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 12, 2019
Activist Blog Dresses Up a Press Release in Desperate Bid for Attention on #ExxonKnew
If you are looking for a press release from supporters of the New York Attorney General on the upcoming #ExxonKnew trial, look no further than Dana Drugmand’s recent piece in Climate Liability News.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 6, 2019
Scientific Consensus: Kamala Harris Did Not Sue Exxon Over Climate Change
During this week’s CNN presidential democratic debate, Erin Burnett, a CNN moderator, asked Senator Kamala Harris if she would sue ExxonMobil over the #ExxonKnew controversy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 5, 2019
Fact Check: Kamala Harris Misled America on #ExxonKnew
Climate activists are calling out presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) for saying on national television that she had sued ExxonMobil.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Climate Costs Report is Just Another Rockefeller-Funded Climate Litigation Campaign Tactic
A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) calculating the costs of adapting to sea level rise is little more than a poorly masked public relations endeavor, seeking to fuel the campaign pressuring cities across the United States into pursuing litigation against energy companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 23, 2019
Whoops: #ExxonKnew Activists Cite Decades-Old Report that Undermines Their Campaign
After being quiet for months, the #ExxonKnew campaign team was back to their cherry-picking ways last week when they tried to seize on a single chart —out of literally thousands of documents – to malign an energy company on the impacts of climate change.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 18, 2019
EU Parliament Rejects #ExxonKnew Campaign
Despite recent efforts by anti-oil and gas activists and Green party members, the European Parliament voted not to strip ExxonMobil of its access badges to Parliament on Tuesday.The Gentry Class Attacks Washington County Prosperity, Buys A Pulitzer?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The fractivist screed “Amity and Prosperity,” an attack on Washington County prosperity by the gentry class just won a Pulitzer Prize from … her husband?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 12, 2019
Dem Oversight Chairman Criticizes Campaign to ‘Eliminate’ Energy Industry
As activists continue to push the misleading #ExxonKnew narrative, energy companies have continued to make strides on researching and combatting climate change, and Congress is taking notice.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 20, 2019
DC Attorney General’s Investigation Raises Questions of Profit Motive, Impartiality
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine’s investigation of ExxonMobil over climate change has opened the door to hedge funds and other monied interests to directly profit from the #ExxonKnew campaign.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 20, 2019
New Hearing, Old Tricks: #ExxonKnew Takes Debunked Testimony to Parliament
This Thursday, the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Petitions and Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will hold a joint hearing on “Climate Change Denial,” specifically focusing on ExxonMobil and the #ExxonKnew campaign.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 31, 2019