ExxonMobil In the News
From Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest:
Oil giant paying for air pollution improvements:
ExxonMobil has agreed to pay a fine of $2.5 million and spend about $300 million on air pollution improvements in a settlement with the federal government and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. The company will install and operate air pollution and monitoring technology for pollution reductions coming from eight of its petrochemical manufacturing facilities in Texas and Louisiana. The Dept. of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency had been enforcing violations of the Clean Air Act, coming from the oil company failing to accurately monitor industrial flares at the facilities, causing excess emissions. Some environmentalists say the settlement is not nearly enough to address violations by the oil company going back a decade.
At the risk of sounding holier than thou, if I were running an oil company that was worth $353 billion, and sold 106 billion gallons of gasoline each year, pumping 212 trillion pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere, I’d be trying really hard not to force the government to punish me for any addition environmental negligence.
Craig,
Just one question?
Does Exxon “pump 212 trillion pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere” , or is it you, when you eargerly use the products Exxon produces ?
Each time you accept the benefits of petro-chemical products you become more complicit than Exxon.
Exxon doesn’t force you to do anything. There’s no ‘conspiracy’. You are fully aware of the environmental compromises inherent to maintain a modern industrial economy, and each day you accept that reality in order to maintain your lifestyle.
Sanctimonious outpourings are always hypocritical, especially when we blame others for our own transgressions. You just need a scapegoat.
I haven’t paid a dime to Exxon (now ExxonMobil) since Exxon Valdez.
Nice job, but for me, it’s hard to know which ones are most culpable. Chevron’s no prince.