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markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social
On the announced closure of Exxon's Mossmorran facility.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
peteknapp.bsky.social
Great to see @mattywin.bsky.social's book 'Hot Mess' on Rolly's table in the latest @climatetown.bsky.social video about Exxon’s $600 Million Dollar Lie.

Always smashes it:
youtu.be/HUeC39CZO44
Matt Winning's book Hot Mess on a table next to Rollie Williams
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
notexxonsbitch.bsky.social
Not Exxon's Bitch just texted and asked me to play her favorite song.
She is having a fabulous beach getaway in an undisclosed exotic location.
youtu.be/NdYWuo9OFAw?...
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris [Official Music Video] [4K Remaster]
YouTube video by Goo Goo Dolls
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November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
"T Brand Studio’s creation of that algae advertisement was not mentioned in the [New York] Times’ own coverage of Exxon’s other algae ads... 'Here then, we have evidence that the Times can be bought so that its branded messages are, indeed, meant to compete against its news agenda,' Amazeen writes."
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
hammancheez.bsky.social
What a good little boy Bret is, making sure Exxon’s interests are represented in the paper of record

Whomst would speak up for the petroleum ceos if not mr stephens, bravely standing athwart the threads of history to loudly declaim

This Time It Will Work And We Will Be Greeted As Liberators Bro
Opinion | The Case for Overthrowing Maduro
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
theguardian.com
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
krmtdfrog.bsky.social
1989 fire at the Exxon plant in Baton Rouge. This huge fire killed two and burned for weeks, as firefighters couldn't contain blazes. They let it exhaust the stored fuel. This was the 3rd Exxon disaster that year, following Valdez in Alaska and another tanker that spilled 117,000 gallons in Hawaii
Dec 25th 1989: Exxon oil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, still smoking from a major Christmas Eve refinery explosion & fire A local TV news frame offers another perspective on the 1989 Christmas Eve explosion at Exxon’s refinery, where at one point, 16 oil storage tanks with crude, benzene, gasoline, and other products were ablaze. Longer view of the Exxon Baton Rouge refinery and Louisiana state capitol building following December 1989 explosion. Photo of the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge, LA refinery, looking west over Mississippi River and showing portions of Standard Heights residential area in the foreground
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
carpenter22.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
bloomberg.com
Fossil fuels have taken center stage at COP30 as negotiators in Brazil aim to lay out a road map for countries to transition away from them. Exxon's top boss Darren Woods is not shying away from the debate. Read more from the UN climate summit: bloom.bg/43rDxT7
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
garb0.bsky.social
I've been to some of these forests
They are beautiful
And scary

Because they look just like the pictures in the textbooks

Anyways, Exxon and XTO want that lithium too. They can use land in different states to pierce down into the Smackover.

July 29 2025:
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Exxon wildcat well in north Louisiana could be first in the state looking for lithium BY LIZ SWAINE | Staff writer Jul 29, 2025 FILE PHOTO: An electric car charges at an electric vehicle charging station in downtown Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday, October 1, 2022. PHOTO BY MORGAN WERTHER When the U.S. Geological Survey dropped its eye-opening results about huge lithium deposits in the Smackover geologic formation in 2024, companies like ExxonMobil, Standard and others had already been acquiring both property and mineral rights. The USGS survey showed the potential of 5 million tons to 19 million tons. That amount, said Science Alert, is nine times the expected global need for electric vehicles in 2030. The Smackover formation extends from Texas to Florida and includes parts of Mississippi, Alabama and a bit of Oklahoma, but to date, the "sweet spots" for commercially viable amounts of lithium have been concentrated in southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas. (Image) The USGS Smackover map showing lithium activity in SW Arkansas. Courtesy USGS So far, Louisiana has been mostly absent from the lithium conversation. That could be changing. A piece of land in Union Parish near Oakland owned by Exxon and operated by Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy could be the first Louisiana lithium test well. A permit for the wildcat well was applied for on June 9 and approved on July 17 by the Monroe District Office of Conservation. There are many details that point to lithium testing, says Shreveport-based mineral consultant Skip Peel. He said Exxon's last Smackover well permit in that area was 10 years ago. It was listed as a "dry hole," plugged and abandoned. Union Parish is just over the state line from Arkansas' tested and verified lithium levels. Map showing Oakland, site of Exxon Wildcat well (Image) The Exxon/XTO Energy wildcat well is near Oakland in northern Union Parish, La. Google Map screenshot The depth of the new well permit is a giveaway, Peel said. "There are other XTO wells and Exxon wells that are in the same vicinity, but they're drilled to 2,500 feet. They're drilled to 4,000 feet. There's nothing anywhere close to 8,750 feet." That depth is where lithium is being found just to the north, he said. In earlier news releases on their plans for southwest Arkansas lithium, ExxonMobil stated that reservoirs for the lithium-rich brine were "about 10,000 feet underground." The well is on Exxon fee land, for which Exxon owns both the surface and mineral rights. This could work in Exxon's favor even if the concentrations of lithium in this part of the Smackover are lower. "If north Louisiana has even 250, 300 parts per million, which would be fairly low compared to southwest Arkansas and east Texas, what does it do to the economics that Exxon also owns the minerals and doesn't have to lease it from any private individuals and also owns the land. Right now, those situations, as far as I'm aware, do not exist in southwest Arkansas or east Texas," Peel said.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
bloomberg.com
Some negotiators at COP30 are working on a road map to transition away from fossil fuels, while Exxon's Darren Woods has a new way to count carbon
A Fossil Fuel Fight Brews at COP30 as Delegates Draft Road Map
It’s all about fossil fuels, folks. Today’s a good day to remember it took 28 COP editions for these two magic words to make it into an official text. When they did, in 2023 in Dubai, it was as part of a commitment by countries to transition away from them. At COP30, fossil fuels have taken center stage from minute one.
bloom.bg
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 22 2024
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I don't blame anyone who wants the jobs to come back

I blame this country for never ripping all the settler colonialism out of our laws and legal system

Communities don't need to be "involved", they need full community ownership and control of major industry!
Dunbar-Jones, so far, sees few reasons for concern. Mostly, Exxon's announcement, alongside similar announcements from companies like Standard Lithium, feels like a great excuse to dress up Lewisville and collaborate with surrounding towns to open the region up for business. She's been told the area could see hundreds of new jobs. "We're losing people to lack of adequate housing, lack of adequate employment," she said. "Now that lithium is coming, everyone's trying to come back." The land around the Smackover Oil Formation remains scarred by years of eager and often ill-planned petroleum extraction, its streams contaminated by oil and brine. Exxon and other companies looking for lithium have participated in public meetings where they've allayed environmental concern, Dunbar-Jones said, declaring their methods to be safe and environmentally sound. But she still wonders. "How can you really know before they come in and get started?" she asked. Critical minerals extraction is subject to a relatively loose framework of regulations, and it can be quite destructive, said Marco Tedesco, a climate scientist at Columbia University who has researched its extraction worldwide. To exploit the Smackover formation, Exxon plans to tap the lithium-rich brine 10,000 feet below ground using a process called deep lithium extraction. "They pump lithium from the bottom - similar to fracking," Tedesco said, adding that the process requires an immense amount of water. The brine evaporates, leaving lithium salts and other byproducts, some valuable and some toxic. "People living by a mine, they have a right to exploit this economic opportunity," he said, but in practice, Tedesco sees most of the benefits leaving the communities where extraction happens. Ramped-up regulation, Marco Tedesco said, could help ensure the communities that provide the materials needed to wean the country off of fossil fuels see more of the benefits, and fewer of the problems, that fossil fuel extraction brought them. But he cautioned that will happen only if rural, working-class communities like Lewisville and Gillette are involved in a public and transparent process to shape the policies needed to do that. "Involving communities at decision level in the early stages, investing in addressing environmental impacts, projecting the consequences on future generations, and sharing the economic and financial benefits with the communities should be moving together," Tedesco said, "like the elements of a choir."
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
donh-----2.bsky.social
This chart was generated by Exxon’s own scientists in the early ’80s. When they realized the damage it would do to their bottom line, they buried the study and went on to buy off Republicans.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
truth.bsky.social
From reporting to impact. Our investigation into Sable is now featured in POLITICO for helping stop Exxon's pipeline.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
rapanotti.bsky.social
Baton Rouge was the home of Exxon's Research Center because a poor community was not expected to fight back.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
truth.bsky.social
“Sable has left me no choice,” said Fifth District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino as he reversed his original vote to allow Sable the permit to take over Exxon’s failed Santa Barbara oil pipeline.
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
mfair.bsky.social
The cynicism and immorality of the fossil fuel industry's (above all Exxon's) efforts to prevent the world from addressing climate change can still take my breath away.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Out of respect for Exxon's modesty, please don't share this!
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
foodandwater.bsky.social
Exxon's lies are global.
climateintegrity.org Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 21d
NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
tpgroberts.bsky.social
Tom was, thankfully, shot during his work with Just Stop Oil. Barbara is awaiting trial for scattering his ashes on Exxon's CEO.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
afro-carib-vybz.bsky.social
#Trump #Rubio #Hegeseth #WarCrimes #Venezuela.

Donald Trump said “America must own Venezuelan oil. Now Trump, Pete Hegeseth & Marco Rubio are killing fishermen for Exxon. Drug false flag used to satisfy Exxon’s Leviathan oil for blood greed for Venezuela’s oil.

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October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
forestwatch.org
(1/4) A major decision is coming for our coast. 🌊 On Tues, Nov 4, the SB County Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to transfer Exxon’s offshore drilling permits to Sable Offshore Corp.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
paul-reddy.bsky.social
The oil giant said requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
leftynavyseal.bsky.social
New Republic: Exxon sues California, alleging CA laws that require Exxon to report carbon emissions and climate related financial risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights, in that it requires Exxon to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas which Exxon disagrees with”..

Sovereign citizen bullshit.
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
doktorzoom.bsky.social
Exxon says it’s only responsible for emissions created by producing oil and oil accessories.

If people go and burn the stuff, not Exxon's fault!

Exxon Sues California For Tort Of 'Because There's Six Clowns On The US Supreme Court Who'd Let Them Win, That's Why'
www.wonkette.com/p/exxon-sues...
Exxon Sues California For Tort Of 'Because There's Six Clowns On The US Supreme Court Who'd Let Them Win, That's Why'
And they just might be right!
www.wonkette.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM