EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION

May 26, 2016

Religious activists a ‘dismal failure’ at ExxonMobil and Chevron meetings

It’s all over but the chanting, which seemingly will continue unabated until religious shareholder activists bring energy companies to heel. What the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility hyperbolically billed as “a watershed year” trickled into a puddle of disappointment yesterday for shareholder activists’ climate-change resolutions. Continue Reading...

April 04, 2016

A ‘moral imperative’ or just another exercize in green politicking?

This past Friday, I blogged about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent decision to allow a vaguely worded proxy resolution proceed to a vote. The resolution was submitted by, among others, members of the religious shareholder activist group the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. Continue Reading...

November 12, 2015

Sisters of St. Dominic Rap ExxonMobil’s Knuckles

Religious shareholder activists egging on a federal investigation of ExxonMobil include the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, which counts the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, New Jersey, among its faith-based members. Continue Reading...

June 22, 2015

Falling Support for Climate Resolutions

All eyes seem to be directed toward Rome last week as the Pope weighed in on climate change. As anticipated, there has already been a lot of spinning by the whirling dervishes of the zealous variety– doubling down on their over-the-top, pre-release spin. Continue Reading...

June 08, 2015

‘Oil and Gas a Winning Game for Investors’ — and the Poor

It could be argued that Exxon is actually an energy company, but it’s still an energy company that knows where its bread is buttered. Oil and gas is the winning game for this company, not solar. Continue Reading...

June 06, 2013

ExxonMobil Shareholders Reject Sisters’ Greenhouse Gas Resolution

The nuns who taught environmental science at the high school your writer attended would preface discussion of natural disasters as “acts of God.” Apparently much has changed in the past few decades as Sr. Continue Reading...