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...image of environmentalists as radicals has craftily been painted by powerful special-interest groups, usually large oil and mining companies, members of which manipulate our political system to influence Congress and perpetuate the myth that they are doing good for America. Large companies such as Exxon, Mobil and Shell pour money into think tanks with positive sounding names such as Partners for Affordable Energy so that their stealth attack on Mother Nature can continue...
...stay there like sludge. The mind's response, after the 20th hearing, is a weary "Yeah, yeah." Got to get the kids off to school. Got to invest in a hog factory, build on a floodplain, send bigger boats after fewer fish. Write a check to Greenpeace. Buy Exxon Mobil. And be sure to pick up some bottled water...
...company that, according to the EPA, leads the nation in the release of toxic chemicals into the environment is (a) Exxon (b) Borden Chemicals & Plastics (c) Monsanto (d) Magnesium Corp. of America...
...Total number of anticipated layoffs announced last week at Boeing, Exxon-Mobil, ITT, Kellogg, Johnson & Johnson, Smurfit-Stone, Courtaulds, United Dominion, Volvo, Deutsche Bank and Amway...
...opportunity was born of a disaster, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. After Exxon agreed to pay a $1 billion settlement, environmentalists had a great idea: Why not have the U.S. and Alaska governments use the funds to buy development rights to some of the 44 million acres of land held by native Alaskans? Then tracts could be set aside as protected forest. Native Alaskans could invest the proceeds, and forests would be saved for hunting, fishing and tourism. But the natives would have to forgo income from logging. Advocates of the plan needed a native Alaskan to help sell...