HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp. posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company – $40.6 billion in 2007 – as the world’s largest publicly traded oil company benefited from historic crude prices at year’s 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 of 2005.
Hardline groups planning June protests accused the EU of “deliberately exterminating its own farmers” at the MCC Brussels event.
The far right is set to piggyback on agricultural discontent to capture votes in June.
A Q&A with DeSmog reporter Justin Nobel about his revelatory new book, Petroleum-238.
Fossil fuel industry efforts to delay inquiries highlight its sense of impunity – and echo tactics used to obstruct climate action and deceive the public.
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