- Exxon booted from carbon tax alliance after lobbying scandal
- Exxon was one of the council’s founding members when it was formed in 2017
Exxon has been ousted from a carbon tax alliance after a company lobbyist was recorded saying that the oil giant voiced support for the idea only because it knew such a policy would be almost impossible to implement says an article in LA Times.
CLC suspends Exxon
Exxon Mobil Corp. was suspended from the Climate Leadership Council, a pro-carbon tax group backed by conservation groups and some of the world’s biggest corporations.
Lobby scandal
The move comes just weeks after an Exxon lobbyist was secretly recorded by Greenpeace saying that the oil giant voiced support for a carbon tax only because it knew such a policy would be almost impossible to implement.
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Source: LA Times
