Exxon Mobil Files Countersuits Against Global Warming Groups - Claims It Is A Victim Of The Left

Misleading. Countersuits are filed by large corporations all the time. The goal is to tie up the proceedings in court for extended periods and/or to outspend and use up the resources of the entities suing them.

One more reason to ditch oil.

One more reason to double down on petroleum and coal.

About time, they need to bankrupt these Enviro-Thugs! Hope they get pulverized!

Reminder that AutoSpies ran a story in which leaked Exxon documents reported they've known about the causal relationship between oil and global climate change for decades, through their **OWN** research.

Also recall that the tobacco companies sued for all sorts of reasons when accusations of tobacco causing cancer were getting lots of air time in past decades.

Science, and virtually all of the literate world knows that burning fossil fuels is harming humanity, and much of other life, here on Earth. And then there's the political party and its supporters who deny these facts. Climate Change Denial is a Made-in-USA, Republican position. Pretty much the rest of the world knows better.

When "truth" is a matter of belonging to the "right" political party, you know things are seriously messed up :-/

Agree completely

I have a dock outside of my summer house on Long Beach Island that goes out into the ocean - and WHen I first got the house - it was almost a foot above the water level. Today - the water at high tide is above the dock - so I do not need any thing else to know that the Ocean Level have been rising. Yet one alt-righter here insists it is not happening (I am being required to rebuild the dock higher). And their own research will end the attempt by the Oil Companies to be more Trump Like and simply redirect to something else. Trump was well known for constantly delaying legal proceeding until a person against him could no longer afford them - but in this case Exxon is going to have to PROVE their side - and they cannot.

Until Solar cells become a real possibility though- we do not really have a clean alternative - some are cleaner like Natural gas over coal - but they all still have emissions. IT is also likely that the process needed to make the new solar cells may also have bad effect as well.

@fiftysix Remember, that TomM hates it when people use an example of one to purport an incontrovertible scientific fact. Oh wait. #hypocrite alert.

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And remember that Alt-Right-ers @fiftysix and @MDarringer side with “clean coal” (quote from POTUS in SOTU). They also don’t believe in human-caused climate change. Fact-resistance and anti-science: Two of the hallmarks of the Alt.Right.

There isn't sitting judge anywhere in the USA who would buy into this argument. They might have just said those people over there are "being mean to me". It would have the same weight in a court of law. Exxon and the other oil companies should be making batteries and other green technologies and start to shift towards being the providers of transportation and mobility "energy" regardless of form.

@CANADIANCOMMENTS: Just as a data point the King of Saudi Arabia is pouring billions into getting the Kingdom out of an oil-based economy. Even he, of all people, knows it's a dead-end, and the longer the Arab countries delay in making their shift, the worse their suffering will be as the rest of the world moves on.

Meanwhile, the US is doubling down on oil, natural gas, and "clean" (according to the prez) coal. One part of me is curious how this might turn out if 8 years of Trumpism came to pass, with the rest of the world having almost a decade jump on the US. Another part of me realizes common sense will likely prevail (wishful thinking?) before the first term is up, and the US will then begin rebuilding, to be restored to its former and rightful place as a respected world leader, which it enjoyed before the Trump era.

Yes international terrorism is far more lucrative.

@TheSteve No one will vote for you hag Hillary, or your token Oprah, or bipolar Biden, or the suck queen Harris is 2020. Kennedy? He torched himself at SOTU.

Stay in Canada where you enjoy the protection we provide for free. Exxon is an oil company so they should do what is best for their shareholders!

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@xjug1987a: Thank you for a demo of “profit before air.” There are people who believe this, as you do.

What a joke! The corporations in the US get their way constantly as they purchase politicians and enjoy limited real/effective regulation or real punitive damage for their spills and real environmental/health impact.

The joke is You, you think Enviro-Thugs don’t buy politicians? Al Bore for one has made millions off this hoax and some idiots hang on his every word. His own wife kicked his fat butt to the curb he such a nut.

fittingly deplorable. haza!

MDaranged, 3.5 million more people voted for Hillary over Dumb Drumpf. 45.2 million Americans cast a vote for a Democratic Senate candidate, while 39.3 million Americans voted for a Republican. The house was about even, but republicans still gained control. What happened you ask? Gerrymandering. Republicans are using illegal gerrymandering and changing campaign finance rules to hold a coup. Considering the repuli-fascist congress refused to fill a Supreme Court opening when required by law and then put in another anti-democracy judge, how in the hell is this a representative government.
Yes, those constitution ignoring fascist are taking over our country and making it worse - EVEN though a majority of Americans did NOT vote for them.

Truthy...if you're so about the "truth" then you realize that the Electoral College elects the President. You don't have to like it, but you can't play both sides of the fence to suit your outcomes. If you want popular vote, you must have that as an absolute and not just to exercise it when you disagree with something.

As for gerrymandering...enjoy your heroin overdose.

Hey stupid you mean Mrs Clinstone, Bubbas wife and President Trump. She’s a 2 time loser and he’s a winner! We live in. Representative Republic not a Democracy... look it up! MAGA!