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#ExxonKnew campaign claims global warming caused Exxon valdez spill

#ExxonKnew campaign claims global warming caused Exxon valdez spill

Exxon Valdez is most studied industrial incident to date, no study on Valdez spill and climate change by Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth How irrelevant and desperate has the #ExxonKnew campaign become? Well, they’re now claiming that global warming caused the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, and that Exxon should have known it would happen. The claims […]

Latest Valdez paid-for story from Columbia Journalism School raises ethical concerns

Latest Valdez paid-for story from Columbia Journalism School raises ethical concerns

Latest Rockefeller/Soros-funded “investigative reporting” received well deserved ridicule In case you missed it last week, the LA Times published yet another fake news piece authored by students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, this time making the ridiculous claim that the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill was caused by climate change and ExxonMobil should have […]

Federal judge suggests Columbia School of Journalism an ‘active participant’ in #ExxonKnew campaign

Federal judge suggests Columbia School of Journalism an ‘active participant’ in #ExxonKnew campaign

Judge suggested InsideClimate and Columbia, far from being objective news outlets, may be active participants in #Exxonknew By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth A federal judge this week delivered a major blow to the #ExxonKnew campaign and the two state attorneys general investigating the company, ruling “The merits of each of Exxon’s claims involve important issues that […]

Exxon filing puts spotlight on Schneiderman’s PR campaign

Exxon filing puts spotlight on Schneiderman’s PR campaign

Bottom line: Schneiderman’s attack on Exxon was always about politics By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been investigating ExxonMobil for nearly two years and during that time, he’s received 2.4 million pages of company documents. Yet all he has to show for it is a company-issued alternate email for former […]

After #ExxonKnew failure, activists try attacking Shell

After #ExxonKnew failure, activists try attacking Shell

Why should anyone take #ExxonKnew – or maybe it’s #ShellKnew now – seriously? By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth What do wealthy activists do now that their #ExxonKnew campaign has failed? Choose another oil company to target, apparently. But the sequel is never as good as the original – and in this case, the original was […]

More details emerge about NY Attorney General, Rockefeller fund, eco-activists #Exxonknew collaboration

More details emerge about NY Attorney General, Rockefeller fund, eco-activists #Exxonknew collaboration

Only after Energy In Depth, other news outlets called them out did the outlet quietly add a correction noting the funding source By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth The New York Post reports today that the Rockefellers and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman were apparently discussing the #ExxonKnew investigation several months before either the InsideClimate News (ICN) […]

By February 14, 2017 0 Comments Read More →
#ExxonKnew activists continue to push #FakeNews

#ExxonKnew activists continue to push #FakeNews

This all reveals that the #ExxonKnew effort has devolved into the inevitable fringe environmental campaign By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth Environmental activists have been struggling to keep the #ExxonKnew campaign alive, as a steady stream of disclosures over the past several months has undermined their efforts to convince more government officials to launch climate-related investigations. […]

By January 21, 2017 0 Comments Read More →
LA Times clings to debunked #ExxonKnew campaign

LA Times clings to debunked #ExxonKnew campaign

  Rockefellers publicly admitted they paid the Columbia School of Journalism to write Exxon stories published in  LA Times By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth The Los Angeles Times is at it again, publishing an editorial praising the investigations of Exxon while failing to disclose their ties to the Rockefellers and the discredited #ExxonKnew campaign. This latest […]

By January 5, 2017 0 Comments Read More →
After terrible year for #ExxonKnew, Rockefeller-funded website tries spinning a defense

After terrible year for #ExxonKnew, Rockefeller-funded website tries spinning a defense

ICN doesn’t mention the Rockefellers’ role in bankrolling the entire #ExxonKnew campaign By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth InsideClimate News (ICN), the environmental group funded by green energy groups and the Rockefellers, recently published its recap of #ExxonKnew, a political campaign spearheaded by environmental activists and a handful of friendly state attorneys general. The activists – […]

By December 29, 2016 0 Comments Read More →
Memo to reporters: #ExxonKnew activists have zero expertise on human rights

Memo to reporters: #ExxonKnew activists have zero expertise on human rights

By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth As stories continue to develop around the nomination of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State, #ExxonKnew activists continue to demand that reporters include mention of their efforts in their stories, notwithstanding their overall irrelevance to the question of whether the secretary-designate will be confirmed by the Senate. These […]

By December 27, 2016 0 Comments Read More →