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EPA investigating ExxonMobil for understating Torrance refinery risk
2015-12-02 06:09:51| Chemicals - Topix.net
The EPA has become the latest government agency to launch an investigation into the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery. The environmental watchdog is investigating whether the company has deliberately understated the worst-case scenario for a disaster at the plant after secretly decreasing the amount of an additive put into highly-toxic hydrofluoric acid that makes it more dangerous than believed.
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EPA investigating ExxonMobil for understating Torrance refinery risk
2015-12-02 05:39:38| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The EPA has become the latest government agency to launch an investigation into the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery. The environmental watchdog is investigating whether the company has deliberately understated the worst-case scenario for a disaster at the plant after secretly decreasing the amount of an additive put into highly-toxic hydrofluoric acid that makes it more dangerous than believed.
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ExxonMobil, Funder of Climate Change Deniers
2015-12-02 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: It's been an interesting time watching the ExxonMobil attempt to defend its track record on climate science, in the wake of revelations that it had bone fide climate scientists properly studying the issue since the 1970's. The #ExxonKnew investigations by Inside Climate News and the LA Times have had ExxonMobil's head of PR, Ken Cohen, furiously tweeting, writing letters, and appearing on news programmes to defend his company's honor. "Our company's work to help understand the role that man-made...
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ExxonMobil Blasts Columbia University Journalism Students Over...
2015-12-01 21:18:27| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
ExxonMobil is taking on some Columbia University journalists for a Los Angeles Times investigation into its evolution from a leader on climate change to a skeptic. The story, published in October by three postgraduate students, motivated Democratic lawmakers to call for a probe into whether the big-oil company covered up its understanding of the threat of global warming produced by burning fossil fuels.
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ExxonMobil has a right to its opinion
2015-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: o environmentalists, ExxonMobil is the closest thing the corporate world has to a Public Enemy No. 1. The company has long fought efforts to address climate change, raising doubts long past the time when such concerns were reasonable. But even its most ardent detractors would admit that it has a right to its opinions. Most of them that is. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has, at the urging of environmental activists, launched an investigation into whether the companys past statements...
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