HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp. posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company โ $40.6 billion in 2007 โ as the world’s largest publicly traded oil company benefited from historic crude prices at year’sย end.
Exxon also set a U.S. record for the biggest quarterly profit, posting net income of $11.7 billion for the final three months of 2007, besting its own mark of $10.71 billion in the fourth quarter ofย 2005.
Trade groups lobbied ministers to promote a source of energy linked to massive environmental harms at the U.N. climate conference.
Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution โ and PR companies help them obscure it.
Students from around the world attended the lobby groupโs carbon capture curriculum at the University of Regina in July.
Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer.
