{"id":1060,"date":"2007-01-20T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T02:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:29:58","slug":"1056-of-exxon-surrenders-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"[1056] Of Exxon surrenders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being attacked from all sides by the greens and allies, one of the great global warming deniers <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=2790313\" target=\"_blank\">surrenders<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/econ161.berkeley.edu\/movable_type\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2007\/01\/14\/exxon-joins-the-real-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jan. 12, 2007 \u2014 Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations, a move experts said could indicate a change in stance from the long-time foe of limits on greenhouse emissions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does Petronas plan to act on global warming?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, where does Petronas sit in the climate debate?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/>p\/s \u2014 from <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/makingwaves\/archives\/2007\/01\/exxon_has_climate_criminal_1se.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">Making Waves of Greenpeace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple years back, our intrepid Greenpeace US research team &#8212; through their work on the ExxonSecrets website &#8212; exposed the role that Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) was playing in trying to ensure Global Warming didn&#8217;t impact US energy policy &#8212; absurdly in one case being asked to play political assassin by folks in the Bush Administration&#8217;s Council for Environmental Quality who thought the Bush Administration EPA chief wasn&#8217;t skeptical enough about climate change. (They uncovered a nice little smoking gun memo exposing the collusion.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two years ago, I blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=466\">ExxonSecrets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being attacked from all sides by the greens and allies, one of the great global warming deniers surrenders (via via via): Jan. 12, 2007 \u2014 Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations, a move experts said could indicate a change in stance from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[137,236],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-exxonmobil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}