{"id":58475,"date":"2021-07-03T10:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58475"},"modified":"2021-07-03T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T15:14:54","slug":"exxon-mounts-feeble-walkback-after-lobbyist-caught-on-camera-telling-truth-about-anti-climate-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58475","title":{"rendered":"Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article-header\">\n<h3 class=\"l-article-header__row l-article-header__row--title t-bold t-bold--condensed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/caught-on-camera-exxonmobil-lobbyist-touts-anti-climate-actions-1192057\/?fbclid=IwAR00QJJtXnw5CVgvf8x4GB_vOGYPxk1HJ-32LW7utouy0O7r0XNNS7zluf0\">Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The oil giant would like you to know that statements from its \u201cSenior Director for Federal Relations\u201d in no way represent its position on federal climate policy<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"c-picture c-picture--video c-picture--no-caption\">\n<div class=\"c-picture__frame\">\n<div class=\"c-crop c-crop--video c-crop--ratio-video\" data-video-crop=\"\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5v1Yg6XejyE?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"670\" height=\"407\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5v1Yg6XejyE?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"l-article-content\">\n<div class=\"c-content t-copy\">\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p>One of ExxonMobil\u2019s top lobbyists has been caught on camera revealing what many critics and environmentalists have claimed all along: That the oil giant continues to fight for its profits over the health of the planet, despite public relations campaigns claiming to back measures like a carbon tax to address\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_climate-change\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/climate-change\/\" data-tag=\"climate-change\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ExxonMobil is one of the planet\u2019s top producers of oil, natural gas, and plastic, one of the corporations\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/09\/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">most responsible for our planet\u2019s runaway carbon emissions<\/a>, and a political heavyweight with a dark history of funding climate-denial front groups that for years have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/six-years-of-deceit-192430\/\">coordinated a campaign in Washington D.C.<\/a>\u00a0to stymie political action against global warming.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the company has changed its public relations tune, running TV commercials that highlight its supposed commitments to developing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5BnZThae7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fossil-fuel alternatives<\/a>, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.exxonmobil.com\/-\/media\/Global\/Files\/energy-and-carbon-summary\/Energy-and-carbon-summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">telling shareholders<\/a>\u00a0it is \u201ccommitted to supporting efforts to mitigate the risk of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But behind the scenes, it appears not much has changed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/keithwmccoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ml-dynamic=\"true\" data-ml-dynamic-type=\"sl\" data-orig-url=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/keithwmccoy\/\" data-ml-id=\"1\" data-ml=\"true\" data-xid=\"fr1625318379950ibd\" data-skimlinks-tracking=\"xid:fr1625318379950ibd\">Keith McCoy<\/a> is the Senior Director for Federal Relations at ExxonMobil. He was targeted by Greenpeace UK in an undercover video effort. A representative of the environmental group, masquerading as a corporate headhunter, set up a video interview with McCoy in May, in which the lobbyist touted the company\u2019s successes in working with \u201cshadow groups\u201d to undermine the scientific consensus around climate change. McCoy also bragged of Exxon\u2019s power on the hill and its ongoing influence with a \u201ccrucial,\u201d bipartisan group of Senators, chief among them Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda The oil giant would like you to know that statements from its \u201cSenior Director for Federal Relations\u201d in no way represent its position on federal climate policy One of ExxonMobil\u2019s top lobbyists has been caught on camera revealing what many critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[141,3717,1041,328,31403,1426,655,1161],"class_list":["post-58475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-change","tag-disinformation","tag-exxonmobil","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-keith-mccoy","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-public-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58476,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58475\/revisions\/58476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}