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How Exxon, Chevron and their buddies killed the world

Behind the Bastards

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ExxonMobil's Black Ops Budget - I Love You

In a 2015 PBS NewsHour interview, ExxonMobil's vice president of public and governmental affairs was asked about an allegation New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman made during a taped segment aired before Cohen's interview. Schneiderman had announced a week earlier that he was investigating ExxonMobil for misleading shareholders and citizens about climate change. The company hit back with a flurry of press releases, newspaper columns, TV and radio interviews and tweets. When all the inconvenient information about Exxon blatantly spreading this information about climate change came out, Kenneth wound up on the front lines of the company's spin team again.

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