![]() And yet, he’s explicitly acknowledging that the other 95 percent is out there, and it’s a consequence of Mobil’s product.” “What he’s saying is, of the hundred percent of global warming that our oil has contributed to, we’re only taking responsibility for 5 percent of that. “This is not Mobil Oil saying we’re responsible for 5 percent of all pollution,” he added. The statement is an “implicit, and potentially explicit acknowledgement, that the biggest impact of an oil company on the climate comes from the use of its product,” Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, told ThinkProgress.Īnd while Noto is placing most of the blame on consumers or “customers,” Muffet argues that this is an acknowledgment that Mobil creates the thing that ends up being the problem. ThinkProgress spoke with some legal experts that believe this is an important omission about emissions. In response to staff complaints, Noto - the man who would become ExxonMobil’s second in command alongside Lee Raymond - appears to acknowledge the impact the company’s product has on rising greenhouse gas emissions. And while ExxonMobil says they didn’t know much of anything, leaks dating back to the 1970s suggest the opposite. ThinkProgress has done a bit of digging and published the very interesting video from 1998 that shows then Mobil Oil chief executive Lucio Noto speaking in front of other Mobil Oil employees, addressing concerns about fossil fuel emissions and its effects on the environment.īut archival video footage of a Mobil Oil meeting seen by ThinkProgress indicates that 20 years ago, employees were raising concerns about the company’s responsibility for climate change. ![]() This includes a tidal wave of lawsuits, counter lawsuits, and numerous motions in their attempts to block discovery orders of the big oil company’s internal documentation showing what they did and did not know about human-made greenhouse gas emissions. ExxonMobil has been fighting tooth and nail to deny any active culpability in climate change. ![]()
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