Article: Stanford poised to buck Exxon Mobile donor: NUNS WANT EXXON MOBIL TO LIMIT EMISSIONS.

Byline: Julie Sevrens Lyons

May 22--Stanford University has found itself caught squarely in the middle of a major proxy battle between a group of New Jersey nuns and the world's largest privately owned oil company.

The university, which has been heavily criticized for taking up to $100 million from Exxon Mobil for climate and energy research, is poised this week to vote in favor of the nuns' proposal that the oil giant immediately reduce its greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming.

The vote would fall in line with the university's policy to support proxy resolutions addressing climate change.

But Exxon Mobil officials ...

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