How ExxonMobil Pollutes the World

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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the social and environmental impacts of ExxonMobil's vast fossil fuel empire. From the Exxon Valdez Oil spill to their pipeline projects in Chad and Cameroon, ExxonMobil has carved a sharp path through communities and through the climate. ExxonMobil is so big that it essentially functions as its own country, able to influence and destabilize whole regions as well as pump millions of tons of fossil fuels into the air. ExxonMobil has also fueled an extensive campaign fighting climate science and climate action. By sponsoring think tanks and climate deniers, ExxonMobil has delayed necessary climate action for decades. Essentially, ExxonMobil is a private sector behemoth capable of destroying the environment and whole countries for decades to come.

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Resources:

1. Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago (InsideClimate News)

2. Reporter Neela Banerjee on Exxon and climate change (Frontline via YouTube)

3. ExxonMobil's Political Lobbying Numbers (Open Secrets)

4. Probe into ExxonMobil Deal Shows Why Strong U.S. Transparency Rules Are Needed for Oil Companies (Global Witness)

5. Gusher (The New Yorker)

6. ExxonMobil Value (Forbes)

7. Exxon Mobil Refinery Pollutes Black Community in Texas (The Intercept)

8. Massachusetts Sues Exxon Mobil for Deceptive Climate Messaging (The Intercept)

9. Big Oil Won't Let the Developing World Kick the Habit (Mother Jones)

10. Exxon Will Pay $2.5 Million for Pollution at Gulf Coast Plants (NY Times)

11. In Nigeria, Oil Spills Are a Longtime Scourge (NY Times)

12. Corporate philanthropy and conflicts of interest in public healthExxonMobil, Equatorial Guinea, and malaria (Naman Shah)

13. ExxonMobil Resolves Tax Dispute with Chad to Evade $74B Fine (NASDAQ)

14. 6 Years After Exxon's Oil Pipeline Burst in an Arkansas Town, a Final Accounting (InsideClimate News)

15. Corporate Carbon Policy Footprint the 50 Most Influential (Influence Map)

16. ChadCameroon Oil PipelineWorld Bank & ExxonMobil in 'Last Chance Saloon' (Jeremy H. Keenan)

17. 2018 Financial and Operating Review (ExxonMobil)

18. Private Empire (Steve Coll)

19. A Methane Leak, Seen From Space, Proves to Be Far Larger Than Thought (NY Times)

20. Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it (The Guardian)

21. The human health implications of crude oil spills in the Niger delta, NigeriaAn interpretation of published studies (Ordinioha & Brisibe)