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Article: Rockefellers push ExxonMobil to look beyond oil.(THIS WEEK)
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- May 5, 2008
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May 5, 2008
Fifteen members of the Rockefeller family publicly called on ExxonMobil Corporation, the company which emerged from family patriarch John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire, to start looking beyond short-term oil profits in planning for a carbon-constrained future. The Rockefeller descendents, who today own a sizable but minority portion of shares in ExxonMobil, would also like to see the company fund a task force to study the consequences of global warming on poor economies as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emission at its own facilities around the world.
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At a press conference last week, the Rockefeller descendants ...