Summary This 1977 document contains Exxon’s financial contributions for the year. The report applauds Exxon for contributing over $5 million to activities concerning the “well-being of citizens.” The report shows that Exxon contributed to a variety of interesting organizations, including the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. The report reveals Exxon contributed a total […]
Summary This document is a 1974 speech by Senior Vice President of Mobil, Dayton Clewell, to the MIT Alumni Advisory Council titled, “Gasoline Supply and Emission Control: A Case Study of Today’s Complex Inter-Relationships.” Clewell blames the 1970s energy crisis on climate scientists and the “sensation loving public.” Clewell urges Congress to freeze the 1974 […]
Summary This document contains Mobil President, William P. Tavoulareas’ passionate response to the Ford Foundation’s “Energy Policy Project Preliminary Report,” which he calls biased and dangerous. The “Energy Policy Project” was created by the Ford Foundation in 1972 to “prepare an informed and reasoned base for a national energy policy.” In his attack, Tavoulareas states that the […]
Summary This document is a 1971 Correspondence between Esso Engineering executives details the predicted impact of federal emission standards regulations. A memo within this collection of documents summarizes the applicability and impact of each 1970 Clean Air Act provision on Esso Engineering’s operations and designs. The correspondence also includes a memo from the HRTC Task Force […]
Summary This 1954 document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is a transcribed speech by A.R. Murdison to the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. Murdison detailed corrosion control efforts on the “Sarnia Products Pipe Line.” This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the […]
Summary This document is a 1961 report by G.A. Lloyd, the coordinator of public affairs for Esso Standard of ExxonMobil titled “The Petroleum Industries’ Air Pollution Control Program.” Lloyd was also the chairman of the Information Committee of the American Petroleum Institute’s Smoke and Fumes Committee. In this piece, Lloyd details API’s air pollution research, […]
Summary This document is a 1958 report by Executive Secretary of API’s Smoke and Fumes Committee, Charles Jones, titled, “A Review of the Air Pollution Research Program of the Smoke and Fumes Committee of the American Petroleum Institute.” The report signifies that the oil industry was conducting studies to determine the effect of fossil fuel […]
Summary “The Petroleum Industry Sponsors Air Pollution Research” is a 1954 article written by Vance Jenkins for the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. Jenkins wrote the article on on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute’s Smoke and Fumes Committee. The article confirms that oil industry executives were aware that air pollution could become […]