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The Case of the Killer Heat

A Matter of Degrees

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How Much Carbon Pollution a Single Company Had Admitted?

ExxonMobil is responsible for 4% of all fossil fuel emissions since 1750, says Richard Branson. He tracked the company's history from its beginning in 1882 as standard oil under Rockefeller and the 1880s to what became ExxonMobil 120 years later. "We quantified their extraction of fossil fuels," he said.

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