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Exxon's climate plan doesn't actually commit to reducing emissions

Its tricky language is just cover for the fossil fuel giant's real plan to increase oil and gas production.

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Emily Atkin
Dec 15, 2020
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Forty-three years after it first became aware of human-caused climate change, fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil on Monday released a new pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sort of. Kind of. Well, not really.

Exxon, the 11th-biggest climate-polluting U.S. company, announced on Monday that it’s going to reduce the emissions intensity of its oil producti…

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