Climate Denier Trump Meets Unexpected Opposition: Exxon Mobil
Trump’s plan to pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and undo the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) has run into resistance from a highly unexpected source: oil company giant Exxon-Mobil. Prior to signing the Executive Order repealing the CPP, Trump – naturally ignoring the clear majority of Americans who supported it – consulted one of the powerful corporate “persons” he really serves in order to get what he hoped would be support for his anti-environmental, pro-corporate actions. He didn’t get the answer he had hoped for; in a letter sent only days before he...
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