BIG oil could one day be in the dock with big tobacco, as the environment group Friends of the Earth International claims to have assembled data that it says could one day help convict one of the industry giants of violating the global climate.
A study of the corporate history of ExxonMobil, the world’s second largest oil company, concludes that over the past 120 years the company and its predecessors have been responsible for a remarkable 5 per cent of global emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. In that time, the company’s production and use of gasoline, diesel,…
