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A new collection on Climate Files of industry and government reports examining the potential for using the UK’s planned carbon capture projects to pump more North Sea oil and gas via a process known as enhanced oil recovery is published below. These documents were assembled by energy journalist Michael Buchsbaum while working on a project […]
A new collection on ClimateFiles of old Shell documents around climate change is published below. These documents were uncovered during five years of research by Vatan Hüzeir of Changerism, while a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of his investigation entitled, Dirty pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990. New […]
Below are the Exxon internal documents that were footnoted in the paper “Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections” (G. Supran et al., Science 379, eabk0063 (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.abk0063) published January 2023. Coverage of the paper was wide: New York Times, Guardian, Associated Press, Politico, LA Times, NPR, CNN, CNBC… Exxon Internal Document References in the paper […]
A new paper by Robert Brulle in the journal Environmental Politics introduces several new documents to the ClimateFiles GCC collection, including important internal documents from the Global Climate Coalition and National Association of Manufacturers. Link to the full paper: Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition ABSTRACT Ever since climate change became […]
This document was buried in our files and surfaced after we published the Global Climate Coalition archives in 2019. The BBC Radio series “How They Made Us Doubt Everything” brings it to light in Episode 5. Share this post on your feed Twitter Facebook Google+
The following is an index of recent climate lawsuits. We uploaded each complaint on DocumentCloud and added an electronic index and links to all available source documents that are referenced or footnoted in the lawsuit. Washington, DC v. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP – June 2020 State of Minnesota v. ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, API – June […]
January 1980 Exxon internal letter from Mr. Eckelman to Mr. O’Loughlin titled – Exxon’s View and Position on “Greenhouse Effect” – with attached November 1979 letter from Ed E. David Jr. to George T. Piercy, Senior VP Share this post on your feed Twitter Facebook Google+
This collection of documents was gleaned from the Glenbow Museum’s Imperial Oil Archive, over the past several years. The original documents are now housed at the University of Calgary. This is the most comprehensive collection of these documents published on the internet to date and were collected by researchers at DeSmog. Search the entire collection […]
This 1976 document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is a paper presented by employees of Esso Chemical Canada and Imperial Oil Limited regarding a program for corrosion mitigation for the Redwater oil field. This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the Glenbow […]
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