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Exxonmobil: Close Relationship With The US Congress

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ExxonMobil has enjoyed a close relationship with the US Congress for quite some time. It has been lobbying to gain commercial access to several federal lands that were previously off-limit to private enterprise. It has influenced the rollback of several Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiatives that were considered hostile to the oil industry. It makes political contributions to candidates, committees, and other political organizations. It has contributed to Political Action Committees (PACs) which in turn disburse money to federal and state candidates and committees. It has engaged in lobbying in the United States at both the Federal and State levels to advocate its positions on issues that affect …show more content…

After the 1980s, the company was a leader in climate change denial. It opposed regulations to curtail global warming. ExxonMobil funded organizations critical of the Kyoto Protocol and seeked to undermine public opinion about the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Exxon helped to found and lead the Global Climate Coalition of businesses opposed to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions
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ExxonMobil has struggled with many lawsuits involving environmental issues and humanitarian conditions. In 2009, ExxonMobil was found liable for its role in groundwater contamination in New York City. In 2001, eleven members of an Indonesian village filed a lawsuit in a US federal court claiming that ExxonMobil had hired Indonesian military members as security for the company, and that these security forces were guilty of human rights violations. In 2004, the ExxonMobil-owned Bayway refinery became another environmental legal hotspot when the EPA in New Jersey filed suit against ExxonMobil for the loss of use and contamination of 1,500 or more acres of marshes, wetlands, waters and meadows in the northern area of the

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