Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

HONESTLY I CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS ONE, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS EXXON STUFF YET? I MEAN, APPARENTLY THERE ARE NEW COURT FILINGS FROM THIS MASSACHUSETTS LAWSUIT THAT STARTED BACK IN 2019, AND THEY FOUND THESE INTERNAL MEMOS FROM DECADES AGO! THERE IS THIS ONE FROM FRANK SPROW BACK IN THE DAY WARNING THAT IF THE WORLD DECIDED TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, IT WOULD HURT EXXON’S BOTTOM LINE, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE SCIENTISTS FROM INSIDE THE COMPANY ACTUALLY CHALLENGING THE STUFF EXXON SAYS ABOUT THEIR OWN BIOFUELS AND CARBON CAPTURE TECH. IT IS ALL PART OF THIS GIANT PILE OF DOCUMENTS RELEASED WITHOUT ANY FANFARE, PROVIDING CRAZY NEW DETAILS ON THEIR INTERNAL DELIBERATIONS FROM THE EIGHTIES ALL THE WAY TO THE TWOTHOUSAND TENS. OK TELL ME THAT IS NOT WILD.

SORRY BUT THIS IS GENUINELY INSANE, SO THE WHOLE DEAL IS THAT MASSACHUSETTS HAS BEEN SUING EXXONMOBIL FOR YEARS, AND SOME NEWLY RELEASED COURT FILINGS ARE DROPPING LIKE BOMBS! THESE DOCUMENTS COVER INTERNAL CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EIGHTIES TO THE TWOTHOUSAND TENS, INCLUDING NOTES WHERE RESEARCHERS WERE LITERALLY TELLING THEIR COLLEAGUES THAT CLIMATE ACTION WOULD MEAN SUBSTANTIAL NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON THE COMPANY. AND NOW, EVEN MORE RECENT DOCUMENTS SHOW INTERNAL SCIENTISTS PUSHING BACK ON THE COMPANY’S OWN CLAIMS ABOUT CARBON CAPTURE AND BIOFUELS. IT IS NOT JUST OLD NEWS EITHER, BECAUSE THESE FILINGS HAVE STUFF NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE, AND IT COMES AT SUCH A PIVOTAL MOMENT WITH THAT UN VOTE COMING UP. IT IS JUST ENDLESS PAPERWORK PROVING THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING ON. ANYWAY, ABSOLUTE SCENES.

New court filings in a 2019 Massachusetts lawsuit reveal internal ExxonMobil documents from the 1980s to the 2010s showing scientists questioning the company's climate claims and business impacts.

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