More than half of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. shareholders voted in favor of a resolution calling for the company to publish an assessment on how its portfolio could be affected by climate change, and most of Range Resources Corp.’s stockholders in their annual meeting gained approval for more information about methane emissions.
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First-of-its-Kind Satellite to Track Methane Emissions in Oil, Natural Gas Sector
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) plans to boldly go where no man has gone before, laying plans to launch a satellite into space to track and measure methane emissions, initially from the oil and natural gas sector.
ExxonMobil Bends to Shareholders, Agrees to Disclose Climate Change Risks
ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to reveal the risks its businesses face from climate change, the supermajor said Monday.
ExxonMobil Loses Bid in Fraud Lawsuit to Keep Auditor Records Private
New York’s highest court on Tuesday opened the door for state officials to demand an ExxonMobil Corp. auditor turn over internal records in a wide-ranging investigation ostensibly about climate change.
ExxonMobil Calls Review of Internal Climate Change Communications ‘Preposterous’
A Harvard University peer-reviewed analysis has concluded that ExxonMobil Corp. misled the public regarding climate change communications over a 40-year period.
California Bipartisan Vote Extends Cap-and-Trade Another Decade
California lawmakers in a bipartisan vote late Monday extended the much-debated multi-billion-dollar cap-and-trade program for another decade. The carbon emissions trading system was set to expire in 2020.
Briefs — Climate Action Summit 2018
Speaking via videotaped remarks to a gathering in Hamburg, Germany prior to the G20 Summit, California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday announced that his state will host the Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September 2018. Brown called for global action by citizens to “roll back the forces of carbonization” and address threats related to climate change. The summit, he said, will bring together various subnational government, business, investment and civilian representatives from around the world. Brown’s recorded remarks in Europe were introduced by Christiana Figueres, a former United Nations official dealing with the UN framework on climate change.
Big Oil, Business Leaders Advocate for U.S. Carbon Tax
Some of the world’s largest oil and natural gas producers and influential corporate leaders on Tuesday joined a push to enact a U.S. carbon tax in an effort to slow climate change.
ExxonMobil Joins List of Who’s Who in Push for U.S. Carbon Tax
Some of the world’s largest oil and natural gas producers and influential corporate leaders on Tuesday joined a push to enact a U.S. carbon tax in an effort to slow climate change.
DOE Secretary Perry Blames Oceans For Climate Change, Downplays Proposed Budget Cuts
Three months after the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a cable news program that he doesn’t believe carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are a primary contributor to climate change, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry doubled down on the same program, blaming global warming in part on the world’s oceans.